Re: [UPDATED PATCH] IP28 support

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:37:59PM -0800, David Daney wrote:

>> There was no answer to .../2006-05/msg01446.html. Perhaps i should just
>> put together an updated patch,
>
> That would be helpful.  It would have to be against GCC's svn trunk. 
> Currently 4.3 is in regression fix only mode.  The earliest the patch could 
> appear in an official GCC release would probably be version 4.4

Many distributions have the policy of applying only patches that are
upstream, even if they're upstream only for a newer version.  As such
getting them into the FSF 4.4 tree would also be tremendously useful as
an icebreaker.

  Ralf