Re: m68k-rtems*

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:00 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >    From: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
> >    Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:44:05 +0100
> > 
> >    Hi,
> > 
> >    The patch below restores m68k-rtems support, which somehow seems to have
> >    gone lost in gdb, some (very long) time ago :).
> > 
> >    I'd politely ask you to apply this patch to cvs-head and gdb-6_3-branch.
> > 
> > Checked in on mainline.  What's your motivation for having this on
> > gdb-6_3-branch? That branch is basically dead now...
> 
> We are about to prepare a new rtems-toolchain release and do not want to
Oops, nasty typo: s/do not want/want/g

> base it on the latest current released version instead of some arbitrary
> cvs-snapshots, because cvs-snapshots tend to be in very volatile shape.
> 
> To my knowledge gdb-6.3 is the latest released, current version, so
> keeping the patches in gdb's official cvs, even if there won't be
> another official release helps us to keep our effort small.

For completeness: If you're going to release a new gdb-release in near
future (esp. accompanying GCC-4.0), then using gdb-cvs would also be
fine for us - If not, we'll have to stick to gdb-6.3. 

Ralf