Re: [avr-gcc-list] Porting Atmel patches

[Georg-Johann Lay]

Joerg Wunsch schrieb:
> > The FSF only allows changes of 10 lines or less in a patch, if there
> > is no copyright assignment on file.
>
> I thought with the recent changes, adding a new AVR device is merely
> going to be a one-liner (a change to avr-devices.c)?

Yes, one line in GCC (not counting the regenerated files like 
documentation, multilib mappings, command options, ... because they 
don't matter) and one line in Binutils.

Such a contribution is considerably nice for someone that starts with 
avr-gcc / avr-binutils because the change is straight forward, not 
critical, adds functionality appreciated by many users, and one can 
concentrate on and learn and understand how contributing works.

In the first contribution, it is likely to be puzzling what is needed 
besides the very change, but one gets familiar with it soon after some 
contributions.

As far as the "Lines of Code" are concerned, I thought that the limit is 
15 lines, but nobody kills you if it are 16 i think ;-)

Extrapolating Atmel's issue rate of more then 1 derivative / month since 
the time when 4.6 was released gives ~15 derivatives.

Or did they increase their issue rate because there are still so many 
suffices and finite letter-digit combinations they don't yet cover?