Subject: Re: [openrisc] OpenRISC port to NetBSD
To: Matjaz Breskvar <phoenix@opencores.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/21/2004 09:48:09
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:29:55AM +0100, Matjaz Breskvar wrote:
>
> I'd suggest you take a look and possibly reuse low level stuff
> from linux kernel or32 port (linux/arch/or32/kernel/head.S and entry.S,
> can be found in the opencores cvs). This will probably save you a lot
> of time since most of it can be used unchanged (the iTLB and dTLB miss
> handlers, exception handlers...).
I'd suggest that you do *not* do that, if you want your port to become
part of the official NetBSD distribution, at least. Cut-and-pasting
GPLed code into BSD-licensed kernels is really not okay.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be
abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky