Mentor Graphics acquires CodeSourcery assets

[Posted December 6, 2010 by ris]

Mentor Graphics has announced its intention to acquire certain assets of CodeSourcery, Inc., a provider of open source GNU-based toolchains and services. ""CodeSourcery and its industry-recognized toolchain services and products significantly increase the value of embedded solutions that Mentor Embedded can provide its customers, as well as contributions to the open source community," said Glenn Perry, general manager, Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "We believe that the future of embedded development depends on the wide availability of open source software and tools."" (Thanks to David Daney)

Mentor Graphics acquires CodeSourcery assets

Posted Dec 6, 2010 20:32 UTC (Mon) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

A nice little but of additional information from the GDB mailinglist:

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2010-12/msg00015.html

"We don't expect much immediate impact on GDB hacking; the Sourcerers are all still here, still work on the same projects, continue to have CodeSourcery addresses, and so forth.

Aficionados of assignment will have noticed that the FSF's copyright list magically grew a Mentor blanket assignment a few days ago. :-)"

Mentor Graphics acquires CodeSourcery assets

Posted Dec 7, 2010 20:54 UTC (Tue) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link] (1 responses)

CodeSourcery pulled the GPL version of VSIPL++, which was apparently funded via the DoD, when that funding dried up. Although Mentor Graphics say that they are interested in OSS, they say nothing about whether they will revive the dual license for VSIPL++.

CodeSourcery's toolchain is, well, a toolchain. It's good, yes, but there's no shortage of high-quality toolchains for Linux. It's amazing how many there are and how few of them are documented anywhere. On the other hand, there's extremely few good signal-processing libraries of any kind.

This isn't to say I don't care about their toolchain. Variety, especially in the embedded arena, is quintessential where the diversity in hardware makes life difficult. I'm merely more interested in what they have that's unique.

Mentor Graphics acquires CodeSourcery assets

Posted Dec 8, 2010 11:47 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

You should probably care about their toolchain because of the sheer number of voluminous GCC contributors they employ and the sheer volume of CodeSourcery stuff which finds its way upstream.