1 ========= Binutils Maintainers =========
3 This is the list of individuals responsible for maintenance and update
4 of the GNU Binary Utilities project. This includes the linker (ld),
5 the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
6 programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
7 opcodes). This project shares a common set of header files with the
8 GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
9 shared amoungst the projects.
11 The home page for binutils is:
13 http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html
15 and patches should be sent to:
17 binutils@sourceware.org
19 with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line. Note - patches to the
20 top level config.guess and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
22 config-patches@gnu.org
24 and not to the binutils lists. Patches to the other top level
25 configure files (configure, configure.ac, config-ml.in) should
26 be sent to the binutils lists, and copied to the gcc and gdb
27 lists as well (gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org and
28 gdb-patches@sourceware.org).
30 Patches to the libiberty sources should be sent to
31 gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org.
33 --------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
35 The following people have permission to check patches into the
36 repository without obtaining approval first:
38 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
39 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
40 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
41 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
42 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
43 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
44 Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>
45 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
46 Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
48 --------- Maintainers ---------
50 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
51 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
52 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
53 the immediate domain that they maintain.
55 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
56 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
57 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
58 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
59 responsibility among the other maintainers.
61 ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
62 AARCH64 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
63 AARCH64 Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
64 ARC Claudiu Zissulescu <claziss@synopsys.com>
65 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
66 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
67 ARM Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>
68 AVR Denis Chertykov <chertykov@gmail.com>
69 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
70 BFIN Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
71 BFIN Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
72 BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
73 CR16 M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
74 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
75 CRX M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
76 C-SKY Lifang Xia <lifang_xia@c-sky.com>
77 C-SKY Yunhai Shang <yunhai_shang@c-sky.com>
78 DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
79 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
80 DWARF2 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
81 dwarf-mode.el Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
82 EPIPHANY Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
83 FR30 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
84 FRV Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
85 FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
86 GOLD Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
87 GOLD Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
88 H8300 Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
89 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
90 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
91 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
92 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
93 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
94 ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
95 ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <me+binutils@cgf.cx>
96 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
97 ix86 PE/COFF Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
98 ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
99 LM32 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
100 M32R Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
101 M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@gmail.com>
102 M68HC11 M68HC12 Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
103 MACH-O Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
104 MAXQ Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
105 MEP Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
106 METAG Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
107 MICROBLAZE Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
108 MIPS Chenghua Xu <paul.hua.gm@gmail.com>
109 MIPS I-IV Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
110 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
111 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
112 Moxie Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
113 MSP430 Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
114 NDS32 Kuan-Lin Chen <kuanlinchentw@gmail.com>
115 NDS32 Wei-Cheng Wang <cole945@gmail.com>
116 NetBSD support Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
117 Nios II Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
118 Nios II Andrew Jenner <andrew@codesourcery.com>
119 OR1K Christian Svensson <blue@cmd.nu>
120 OR1K Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
121 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
122 PPC Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
123 PPC Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
124 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
125 RISC-V Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
126 RISC-V Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
127 RISC-V Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
128 RX Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
129 S12Z John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
130 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
131 s390, s390x Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
132 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
133 SPARC David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
134 SPARC Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
135 SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
136 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
137 TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
138 TILE-Gx Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
139 TILEPro Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
140 VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
141 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
142 Visium Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
143 VMS Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
144 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
145 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
146 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
147 XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
148 XGATE Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
149 Xtensa Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
150 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
152 --------- Past Maintainers -------------
154 These folks have acted as maintainers in the past, but have now
155 moved on to other things. Our thanks for all their hard work
168 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
170 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
171 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
172 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
173 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
174 CGEN and the files that it creates.
176 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
180 The current CGEN maintainers are:
182 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
184 --------- Write After Approval ---------
186 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
187 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
188 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
190 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
191 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
192 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
194 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
196 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
197 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
198 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
199 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
200 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
201 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
202 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
203 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
205 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
207 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
208 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
209 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
210 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
211 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
212 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
213 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
215 (cf global maintainers)
217 -------- Testsuites ---------------
219 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
220 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
221 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
222 relevant port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
223 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
226 -------- Configure patches ----------
228 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
229 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
230 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
233 config-patches@gnu.org
235 --------- Creating Branches ---------
237 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
238 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
239 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
240 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
241 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
242 to contributions on a branch.
244 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
247 binutils-<org>-<name>
249 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
250 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
251 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
252 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
253 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
254 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
256 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
257 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
258 choice of branch name would be:
262 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
263 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
264 should follow these rules:
266 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
268 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
272 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
274 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
276 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
278 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a git checkout corresponding
279 to the initial state of your branch.
283 git tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
285 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
286 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
288 3. Create and push the branch:
290 git checkout -b binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
293 4. Document the branch:
295 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
296 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
297 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
298 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
300 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
301 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.
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