Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:59:19 +0100 From: Ruslan Bukin <ruslan.bukin@cl.cam.ac.uk> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: Ruslan Bukin <br@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r332012 - in vendor/opencsd: . dist dist/decoder dist/decoder/build dist/decoder/build/linux dist/decoder/build/linux/rctdl_c_api_lib dist/decoder/build/linux/ref_trace_decode_lib dist/... Message-ID: <20180406095919.GA10840@bsdpad.com> In-Reply-To: <201804041611.w34GBTOi093289@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <20180404154320.GA72125@bsdpad.com> <201804041611.w34GBTOi093289@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 09:11:29AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 08:02:04AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Author: br > > > > Date: Wed Apr 4 12:33:46 2018 > > > > New Revision: 332012 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/332012 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > Import OpenCSD -- an ARM CoreSight Trace Decode library. > > > > > > Why does this need to be in base? > > > Is there some reason it can not live as a port? > > > > > > > Yes opencsd is a dependancy for pmctrace(1) -- new HWPMC tracing tool. > > Why does pmctrace(1) need to be in base? > I can see that there is kernel driver code to support this, > is it to keep the userland pmctrace(1) closely coupled to > the kernel hwpmc(4) code? > pmctrace(1) is part of hwpmc, i.e. it is using its facilities, similar to pmcstat(1). > I shall assert this code also has a broken license form, > if you read LICENSE there is no copyright "above" to > retain, or print for a binary release. As a consumer of > that LICENSE technically I have to display nothing. > I am sure that is not the desired intent. > > I believe this is still under review without formal policy > from core. You are right. I just asked maintainter to fix this. Thanks Ruslan
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