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Re: [patch] target triplet for Microblaze.


Pedro Alves wrote:
On Thursday 18 November 2010 17:43:50, Michael Eager wrote:

MicroBlaze is a proprietary processor developed by Xilinx and, AFAIK,
they have not licensed it to other manufacturers.



Xilinx is the only possible specification which meets the definition
in Autobook.

That can't be right.


" cpu
     The type of processor used on the system. (...)

 manufacturer
     A somewhat freeform field which indicates the manufacturer of the system. (...)"

It's manufacturer of the system, not of the CPU.
Note "used on the system", therefore cpu != system.  And "system"
is really a broad term.  AFAIK, it's really a freeform field in
practice, so you should be able to put anything there.  For example,
if one takes xilink's toolchain sources (the gpl bits), fork / patch
them for some reason, and build / distribute them oneself, one
might want to legitimately change the manufacturer field to
avoid confusion.

System, in this case, is the FPGA, manufactured by Xilinx.


If someone did fork the toolchain, how would that change
the manufacturer of the target system?

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