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Re: [RFC 2/5] xtensa: make configuration dynamic
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: "augustine dot sterling at gmail dot com" <augustine dot sterling at gmail dot com>, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, David Weatherford <weath at cadence dot com>, Maxim Grigoriev <maxim2405 at gmail dot com>, Woody LaRue <larue at cadence dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:53:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5] xtensa: make configuration dynamic
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Hi Augustine, Hi Max,
> Actually, check that. I missed that this does both the refactoring
> necessary to add a plugin mechanism and actually adds the plugin
> mechanism.
>
> So: This introduces a plugin mechanism to gdb and binutils. That needs
> a higher-level discussion regarding licensing and plugin mechanisms
> generally, but from the general maintainers of both binutils and gdb.
>
> Would one of the general maintainers review this please?
Well the binutils already has a plugin support, so this patch is just
adding the ability for a different type of plugin to be used. I am OK
with that, providing that the plugin itself is also licensed under the
GPL v3.
Cheers
Nick