How to submit fix for a bug?
gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov
gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Jul 8 20:29:05 UTC 2003
Joel Sherrill writes:
>
>
> mikeci at acm.org wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a question on how to submit a fix for a bug. I know that a diff is
> > prefered but what in the case where you replace the whole file. I would
> > like to submit a fix for a shell. In the present form this file is
> > unreadable, so I applied a beautifier to it. In short I have two files
> > shell.c and cmds.c which are now readable and with a bug fixed.
> > The other question is related to MIPS R4000 support. Thanks to Greg this
> > is working fine and I sent files related to the R4000 support to him. This
> > includes support for MIPS32 processors. I think that this can be
> > interesting to others.
>
> RTEMS uses GNATS as a problem tracking system. Go ahead and file a
> problem report at http://www.oarcorp.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl. In
> this case, it looks like you have two things to report.
>
> Put Greg Menke <gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov> as one of the other people
> interested since he reviews all the mips stuff. How is performance on
> the mips32 looking? What CPU model are you using? If wouldn't happen
> to be one of the Broadcom ones would it?
>
> Attach the patch to the PRs and then you don't need to edit them later.
>
> Improvements are always welcomed.
>
Joel, I have his MIPS32 mods and will submit them shortly once I've
got them integrated and confirm there are no problems with the R3000.
I should have some time to do it now- I've been sort of holding off
due to the potential whirlwind of issues if my powerpc stuff turns out
to be evil.
Gregm
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