Re: [Patch] Mechanism for board files to set default remotetimeout

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 05/31/2013 12:42 AM, Sterling Augustine wrote:
> The enclosed simple patch adds and demonstrates a new mechanism for a
> board file to declare a default remotetimeout. 

Took me a bit to realize this is about "set remotetimeout" in gdb,
not the expect timeout.  It wasn't that obvious from the
description.  :-)

Is this really necessary?  The board could just append "-l TIMEOUT"
to the GDB command line invocation.  Looks simpler, and doesn't
depend on issuing an interactive GDB command.

> It follows a similar mechanism as set height 0.
> 
> This is useful if the board has high latency for internal gdb
> commands, as remote-stdio-gdbserver.exp does.

"high latency for internal gdb commands"?

What does that mean?  What are internal gdb commands?

Testsuite knobs boards can tweak should be documented somewhere.
Looks like under "Testsuite Configuration" in the gdbint manual
might be a good place?  Would be great if it was minimally
documented in the .exp itself too.

-- 
Pedro Alves