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 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
84 FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@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 Dave Brolley <brolley@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 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
130 s390, s390x Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
131 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
132 SPARC David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
133 SPARC Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
134 SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
135 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
136 TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
137 TILE-Gx Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
138 TILEPro Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
139 VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
140 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
141 Visium Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
142 VMS Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
143 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
144 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
145 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
146 XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
147 XGATE Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
148 Xtensa Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
149 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
151 --------- Past Maintainers -------------
153 These folks have acted as maintainers in the past, but have now
154 moved on to other things. Our thanks for all their hard work
167 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
169 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
170 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
171 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
172 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
173 CGEN and the files that it creates.
175 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
179 The current CGEN maintainers are:
181 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
183 --------- Write After Approval ---------
185 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
186 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
187 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
189 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
190 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
191 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
193 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
195 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
196 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
197 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
198 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
199 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
200 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
201 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
202 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
204 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
206 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
207 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
208 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
209 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
210 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
211 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
212 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
214 (cf global maintainers)
216 -------- Testsuites ---------------
218 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
219 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
220 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
221 relevant port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
222 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
225 -------- Configure patches ----------
227 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
228 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
229 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
232 config-patches@gnu.org
234 --------- Creating Branches ---------
236 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
237 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
238 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
239 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
240 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
241 to contributions on a branch.
243 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
246 binutils-<org>-<name>
248 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
249 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
250 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
251 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
252 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
253 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
255 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
256 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
257 choice of branch name would be:
261 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
262 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
263 should follow these rules:
265 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
267 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
271 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
273 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
275 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
277 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a git checkout corresponding
278 to the initial state of your branch.
282 git tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
284 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
285 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
287 3. Create and push the branch:
289 git checkout -b binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
292 4. Document the branch:
294 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
295 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
296 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
297 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
299 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
300 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.
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