Re: Capstone for MIPS (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers)

2022-05-17 Thread Richard Henderson
On 5/17/22 00:18, Thomas Huth wrote: On 09/05/2022 15.42, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 9/5/22 15:18, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] By the way, what about MIPS? Could MIPS be switched to Capstone, too, so that we could finally remove disas/mips.c ? (We're not using capstone there yet, and MIPS

Capstone for MIPS (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers)

2022-05-17 Thread Thomas Huth
On 09/05/2022 15.42, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 9/5/22 15:18, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] By the way, what about MIPS? Could MIPS be switched to Capstone, too, so that we could finally remove disas/mips.c ? (We're not using capstone there yet, and MIPS has so many flavours, big and little

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers

2022-05-09 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
On 9/5/22 15:18, Thomas Huth wrote: On 09/05/2022 14.20, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 12/4/22 18:58, Thomas Huth wrote: Many of the disassemblers in the disas folder are based on old versions from the GNU tools (libopcode, GDB, ...) that were still licensed under the GPL v2. The GNU tools

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers

2022-05-09 Thread Thomas Huth
On 09/05/2022 14.20, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 12/4/22 18:58, Thomas Huth wrote: Many of the disassemblers in the disas folder are based on old versions from the GNU tools (libopcode, GDB, ...) that were still licensed under the GPL v2. The GNU tools switched to GPL v3 at one point in

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers

2022-05-09 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
On 12/4/22 18:58, Thomas Huth wrote: Many of the disassemblers in the disas folder are based on old versions from the GNU tools (libopcode, GDB, ...) that were still licensed under the GPL v2. The GNU tools switched to GPL v3 at one point in time, so QEMU is stuck with the old versions, i.e.

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers

2022-04-21 Thread Richard Henderson
On 4/12/22 09:58, Thomas Huth wrote: Many of the disassemblers in the disas folder are based on old versions from the GNU tools (libopcode, GDB, ...) that were still licensed under the GPL v2. The GNU tools switched to GPL v3 at one point in time, so QEMU is stuck with the old versions, i.e.

[RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers

2022-04-12 Thread Thomas Huth
Many of the disassemblers in the disas folder are based on old versions from the GNU tools (libopcode, GDB, ...) that were still licensed under the GPL v2. The GNU tools switched to GPL v3 at one point in time, so QEMU is stuck with the old versions, i.e. these files did not see much updates for