From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4986 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2006 14:18:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 4974 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2006 14:18:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:18:05 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GQPNL-0006BT-Fj for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:18:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:18:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: [rfa] NEWS additions for flash Message-ID: <20060921141803.GD22556@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 This patch adds news entries for the flash patches I've just checked in. Is this OK? The next release is shaping up to be quite an improvement. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery 2006-09-21 Daniel Jacobowitz * NEWS: Mention flash support for "load" and new remote packets. Index: gdb/NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.197 diff -u -p -r1.197 NEWS --- gdb/NEWS 16 Aug 2006 20:33:23 -0000 1.197 +++ gdb/NEWS 21 Sep 2006 14:16:05 -0000 @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ supported. * The "set trust-readonly-sections" command works again. This command was broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5. +* The "load" command now supports writing to flash memory, when the remote +stub provides the required support. + * New commands set substitute-path @@ -52,6 +55,15 @@ qXfer:auxv:read: Fetch an OS auxilliary vector from the remote stub. This packet is a more efficient replacement for qPart:auxv:read. +qXfer:memory-map:read: + Fetch a memory map from the remote stub, including information about + RAM, ROM, and flash memory devices. + +vFlashErase: +vFlashWrite: +vFlashDone: + Erase and program a flash memory device. + * Removed remote packets qPart:auxv:read: