From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: Remove m68k-elf special cases from gdb.trace
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF078EE.1080800@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091102012332.GA31878@caradoc.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Our tree has carried around (an older version of) this patch for some
> time.
>
> Once upon a distant past, when tracepoint support was first added, GDB
> supported some sort of EMC device (probably a NAS or similar?) with an
> m68k processor. It was a bit different from other GDB targets and the
> main interest was tracepoints rather than full debugging. So bits
> sprang up in the testsuite to accomodate this device.
WP has some background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix .
Ironically, the original tracepoint project was motivated by EMC's
PowerPC transition - the 68k bits were just for testing in the meantime.
(IIRC EMC never used GDB for 68k-target debugging at all!) So there's
nothing lost by ditching those bits, and it will clear the field for
updating to modern setup.
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 1:24 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-02 2:53 ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-03 18:39 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2009-11-05 20:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-10 12:49 ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-10 18:15 ` Stan Shebs
2009-11-10 19:37 ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-10 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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