Re: SuperH patch contributions

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:30:08AM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > I'd recommend creating a branch so that you can both post and commit the 
> > changes.  Good luck!
> 
> I had an accident, an now there is unfortunately not enough time left
> to do things nicely.  I want to focus now on getting all the patches
> covered, and we can sort out later what part of it can be integrated
> and how.
> 
> I got a 48 MB gzipped tar file of a sh64 gdb + simulator build.
> Uuencoded this is 66 MB.
> This is based on a March 2002 snapshot and a number of RedHat patches.
> I did mostly patches to the simulator to make it simulate the right thing.
> Some of the configury bits (which I didn't wrote) didn't work quite right
> (or maybe I was missing some undocumented incantation), so I had to
> patch some of the post-configuration files; this is why I included all
> the build files in the tarball and it is so large.
> It is too large for tha mailing list - or should I split it up into twenty
> messages?  What is the preferred way to submit things that large?
> Note, there is no time left to identify the post-configuration mods or
> do patch review before I leave SuperH.  The objective now is to make these
> tools available, and to get the copyright assignment to cover them (which
> depends on submitting the code).

Please don't send it to the mailing list.  I believe the last time we
needed to do this we made some space on sources.redhat.com for it, but
I don't know where...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz