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 Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
47 --------- Maintainers ---------
49 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
50 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
51 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
52 the immediate domain that they maintain.
54 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
55 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
56 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
57 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
58 responsibility among the other maintainers.
60 AARCH64 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
61 AARCH64 Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
62 ARC Claudiu Zissulescu <claziss@synopsys.com>
63 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
64 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
65 ARM Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>
66 AVR Denis Chertykov <chertykov@gmail.com>
67 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
68 BFIN Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
69 BFIN Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
70 BPF Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
71 CR16 M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
72 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
73 CRX M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
74 CTF Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
75 C-SKY Lifang Xia <lifang_xia@c-sky.com>
76 C-SKY Yunhai Shang <yunhai_shang@c-sky.com>
77 DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
78 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
79 DWARF2 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
80 dwarf-mode.el Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
81 EPIPHANY Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
82 FR30 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
83 FRV Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
84 FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@sourceware.org>
85 GOLD Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
86 GOLD Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
87 H8300 Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
88 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
89 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
90 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
91 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
92 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
93 ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
94 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
95 ix86 PE/COFF Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
96 ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
97 LM32 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
98 LoongArch Chenghua Xu <xuchenghua@loongson.cn>
99 LoongArch Zhensong Liu <liuzhensong@loongson.cn>
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@orcam.me.uk>
110 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
111 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@sourceware.org>
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 OR1K Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
122 PDP11 Stephen Casner <casner@acm.org>
123 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
124 PPC Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
125 PPC Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
126 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
127 RISC-V Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
128 RISC-V Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
129 RISC-V Jim Wilson <jim.wilson.gcc@gmail.com>
130 RISC-V Nelson Chu <nelson.chu@sifive.com>
131 RX Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
132 S12Z John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
133 s390, s390x Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com>
134 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@sourceware.org>
135 SPARC David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
136 SPARC Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
137 SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
138 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
139 TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
140 TILE-Gx Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
141 TILEPro Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
142 VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
143 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
144 Visium Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
145 VMS Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
146 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
147 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
148 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
149 XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
150 XGATE Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
151 Xtensa Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
152 Xtensa Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
153 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
155 --------- Past Maintainers -------------
157 These folks have acted as maintainers in the past, but have now
158 moved on to other things. Our thanks for all their hard work
172 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
174 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
175 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
176 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
177 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
178 CGEN and the files that it creates.
180 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
184 The current CGEN maintainers are:
186 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
188 --------- Write After Approval ---------
190 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
191 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
192 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
194 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
195 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
196 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
198 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
200 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
201 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
202 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
203 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
204 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
205 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
206 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
207 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
209 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
211 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
212 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
213 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
214 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
215 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
216 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
217 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
219 (cf global maintainers)
221 -------- Testsuites ---------------
223 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
224 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
225 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
226 relevant port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
227 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
230 -------- Configure patches ----------
232 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
233 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
234 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
237 config-patches@gnu.org
239 --------- Creating Branches ---------
241 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
242 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
243 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
244 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
245 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
246 to contributions on a branch.
248 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
251 binutils-<org>-<name>
253 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
254 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
255 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
256 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
257 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
258 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
260 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
261 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
262 choice of branch name would be:
266 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
267 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
268 should follow these rules:
270 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
272 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
276 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
278 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
280 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
282 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a git checkout corresponding
283 to the initial state of your branch.
287 git tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
289 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
290 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
292 3. Create and push the branch:
294 git checkout -b binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
297 4. Document the branch:
299 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
300 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
301 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
302 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
304 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
305 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.
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