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Re: cmake stuck on mips
On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > Have they ever been offered in the first place?
>
> Possibly not.
>
> It requires a certain combination of "first-hand knowledge of
> what those diffs do", "ability to possibly modify them to be
> applicable and acceptable upstream", "personal time and energy to
> see this through", "willingness to jump through any hoops
> required to be able to contribute code to the GCC project", and
> it's just possible that nobody has yet satisfied all those
> preconditions. I was just (implicitly) bemoaning that.
Completely understood. The amount of effort required to get an upstream
submission through may seem overwhelming for a newcomer, but local patch
maintenance usually turns out costlier long-term.
Also the GCC community is perhaps the friendliest ever nowadays towards
new people. And one needn't do copyright paperwork with FSF anymore if
they are not happy with that; a DCO will do.
See <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted> for how to start.
> > If they're specific to the NetBSD configuration, then they should get
> > accepted right away, as long as basic stuff such as code formatting is
> > correct, as it's NetBSD developers who are the experts here after all.
> >
> > If they apply to generic MIPS stuff or the middle end, then things may
> > be a bit more involving, and in particular there has been no active MIPS
> > GCC port maintainer recently. But things can be sorted regardless, as
> > long as they get actually posted. There are people on the gcc-patches
> > mailing list who have MIPS experience, myself including, and for the
> > middle end we have active general maintainers.
>
> Understood.
>
> I'm just hoping someone could take this up as a challenge -- a
> "worthy cause" so to speak, as it ideally ought to reduce our own
> maintenance burden when new gcc versions are to be integrated
> into our own code base.
Precisely! I can see we're on the same page then. Good luck!
Maciej
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