From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24229 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2012 22:45:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 24204 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2012 22:45:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.62) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:45:34 +0000 Received: from [68.96.200.16] (helo=macbook2.local) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1SuAKj-0001c8-I8 for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:45:33 -0400 Message-ID: <5010770D.8060909@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:45:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] new board file 'remote-host-native.exp' References: <1343135426-20959-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <500EC87A.10806@redhat.com> <1804874.ivBX2v1I8f@qiyao.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1804874.ivBX2v1I8f@qiyao.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940289bda0af1db4e200c1e47c489061ce6350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00598.txt.bz2 On 7/25/12 12:27 AM, Yao Qi wrote: > On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 05:08:26 PM Pedro Alves wrote: >> Why natively? I'd think you could use both this host board with e.g., >> a gdbserver target board file. I suggest: >> >> +# This file is a dejagnu "board file" and is used to run the testsuite >> +# against local host, in remote host mode. >> >> I'd even rename the file to local-remote-host.exp. >> > Looks term "native" can be used for target board file, while term > "local/remote" can be used for host board file. Comment is fixed. > I thought of 'local-remote-host.exp' before, but gave it up since I > was afraid people are confused by its name. I am fine with it. > I'm still a little confused as to why anyone would need this board file, so it would be good to include some more explanation and maybe an example. Is it just that DejaGNU's generic remote execution machinery doesn't include the GDB-specific concept of downloading, and so we have to add a specific download proc? Stan stan@codesourcery.com