Re: [PATCH] Allow board file to specify remotetimeout

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 11/07/2014 03:25 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:

>> Is there an advantage to this method?
> 
> Yeah, it's documented in testsuite/README so I'll find it next time.  1/2 :-)
> 

:-)

> I'd long since forgotten about the wiki page.
> Having both places being reasonably large, and neither having a reference
> to the other, is unfortunate.
> [The README mentions the wiki, but without an explicit link
> it's not that helpful.]
> 
> I'd be happy with gutting testsuite/README and just mentioning the wiki url.
> Thoughts?

I  ( still [1] ) prefer having the testsuite/README file in the tree
documenting the variables that the testsuite supports, because
those are tied to the specific GDB version in the tree, while
the (whole) wiki doesn't really distinguish that.  IMO, the
wiki serves best for "recipes" and tips.

It looks like testsuite/README doesn't document GDBFLAGS though.
How about we fix that, and use 'set GDBFLAGS "-l 15"' as the
example?

I think the "Writing Tests" section of README could/should be
moved to the wiki, though, e.g., to the GDBTestcaseCookbook page.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-09/msg00192.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves