Re: OpenRISC port

[Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists dot ecos at r-finger dot com>]

Hi,

On 23/01/13 09:36, Piotr Skrzypek wrote:
> Together with my colleages from Ant Micro, we have updated the
> OpenRISC port. We discovered that the OpenRISC HAL was not working
> anymore, probably due to ABI change. We have also added few device
> drivers. All changes to the code were introduced against the code in
> eCos repository. This makes me believe there is no problem with
> licensing.

This is excellent news; I looked what could be done about updating the
ecos orc platform based on the OpenRISC fork about a year ago after the
excellent OpenRISC talk at FOSDEM, but was not able to find out who the
real authors were so that the copyright re-assignment could be done.


> There is one more problem and we seek your advice. Current OpenRISC
> architecture is called OpenRISC1000 (aka or1k). There is an update
> foreseen. The new architecture will be called OpenRISC2000 (aka or2k)
> and it will not be backwards compatible. How should we structure the
> HAL directory to take into account the update in the future?

I am not a maintainer, but since these are two different architectures,
my inkling would be toward renaming the current architecture to
something like 'hal/openrisk1k' so that later on you can add
'hal/openrisk2k'.

Tomas