Re: [PATCH v2] gdbserver: bfin: new port

Mike Frysinger
2010-12-15T16:54:50Z

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On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 13:20:35 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 13:06:19 Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 December 2010 17:47:11, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > i'll open a tracker item to get this stuff eventually split out, but i
> > > dont see it being done in a time frame that is before the gdb-7.3
> > > release which i really want to be a part of.
> >
> > That's months away. I think you're over estimating. :-)
>
> i'm pessimistic when it comes to absorbing knowledge of projects under
> sourceware.org ... it's an ecosystem unto itself.
>
> > BTW, you should also include
> > linux-tdep.o in gdb_target_obs, and call linux_init_abi somewhere
> > in your GDB_OSABI_LINUX osabi handler.
>
> i'm guessing this would depend on the bfin-linux-tdep split though as we
> currently dont have any osabi handlers. this linux-tdep code is "new" as
> it wasnt in the version of gdb we're upgrading from.

seems your optimism wins over my pessimism. splitting out into bfin-linux-
tdep was fairly easy, as was dropping all of our old sigcontext parsing in
favor of trad-frame. i love watching code get deleted in favor of
functionality equivalent snippets :).

hopefully my v4 patchset should make everyone happy.
-mike

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