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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:21:00 -0000
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow board file to specify remotetimeout
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On 11/07/2014 01:01 AM, Doug Evans wrote:

> I was cross-testing from linux to windows7 with stdio gdbserver,
> and ssh was taking longer to connect than the default remotetimeout
> of 2 seconds.
> 
> This patch adds the ability to specify remotetimeout in the board file.
> 
> For reference sake, here's my board file.

Note you can already put

 set GDBFLAGS "-l 15"

in the board file for this.  See:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/TestingGDB#Running_GDB_with_a_larger_remote_serial_protocol_timeout

Is there an advantage to this method?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves