From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James E Wilson Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:30:15 +0000 Subject: Re: ia64 dispersal analysis capability Message-Id: <1127338215.26485.38.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com> List-Id: References: <20050921182143.GA30873@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050921182143.GA30873@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:23, Gary Hade wrote: > At the time, I obtained a FSF copyright assignment for > the code at the request of one of the binutils maintainers. > AFAIK the patch was never incorporated although I do > not remember seeing any technical concerns from the > binutils maintainers before I moved on to a different > project. I searched the binutils mailing lists for "Gary Hade" and all I found was a ppc disassembler patch. Was it ever submitted to the binutils group? Maybe it was only submitted to some IA-64 list? If it only went to an IA-64 list, that may be part of the reason why it got dropped. The other part of the reason is probably that there weren't any active IA-64 binutils developers at the time. I'm listed at the IA-64 maintainer, but there was a period in 2002-2003 before and after I left Red Hat where I could not do much IA-64 related work. Nowadays, we've got HJ at Intel who does quite a bit of IA-64 related binutils work.