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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r333872 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/tools/ctf/cvt
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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 03:44:37PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> ...
> I don't really think it's important. The main consideration is the
> toolchain. We use illumos as an upstream, which is pretty inactive at
> this point. Joyent's illumos fork has put a lot of work into the CTF
> toolchain, and OpenBSD has made some progress towards an ISC-licensed
> ctfconvert utility. I'd like to import the latter, since the permissive
> license means that we can use it in DDB. It requires more work because
> of some missing functionality, though.
> 
> At some point I think we'd like to pursue one of these two upstreams,

Quick reality check question: why aren't *we* (FreeBSD) upstream, since
Sun was killed by Oracle and we're more alive than illumos and OpenBSD?

./danfe