Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Update disassembler files from latest binutils

[Blue Swirl]

On 10/25/08, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The second patch updates the files from binutils 2.18. The real
>  > changes from 2002 binutils to current are not that large, but there is
>  > some code movement and I changed tabs to spaces at one point. The
>  > license changes from GPL v2 to v3.
>
>
> GPLv3 is not acceptable for qemu, which contains v2 only code.

We could update once to binutils 2.17 which is GPL v2+. For Sparc this
would be about OK, since there is just one commit after GPLv3 switch.
But for i386 this would mean missing 30 to 50 commits.

Alternatively we could develop new disassemblers, for example based on
translate.c code (LGPL v2 for Sparc). Easy for Sparc, but a huge job
for i386/amd64.