That's good to know, thanks. Ross On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 12:41, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote: > > Hi Ross, > > On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:55 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > > I don't like accumulating pending patches for something as key as > > binutils, are these actually working their way upstream now? > > Sure they are! > > Our team development is very upstream targeted, i.e. we try to > submit all our changes upstream. But with Binutils we're lagging > behind upstream a bit because recently we made some significant reworks > and now catching up with upstream. > > What's more my colleague Claudiu Zissulescu recently became > official Binutils maintainer for ARC, see > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=02d7a79e1b93240729a52246432d9a84583bcf82 > so I expect less and less patches for ARC will be "pending". > > Not sure though if that makes much sense. > > -Alexey