Re: Remove m68k-elf special cases from gdb.trace

[Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:39:42, Stan Shebs wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> gdb/agentexpr.texi has section "Tracing on Symmetrix" that I
> think should be dropped as well.
>   
Agreed. It's an interesting historical tidbit, but historians can go dig 
up an old rev if they really want to research it.

Stan