Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove obsolete GDBserver ports

Simon Marchi
2020-05-14T19:12:25Z

On 2020-05-14 3:07 p.m., Christian Biesinger via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:44 PM Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
> <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> This series implements the removal of obsolete gdbserver ports, as discussed
>> here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168361.html
>>
>> I'm not in a hurry to merge this. I don't recall the exact process for
>> removing support for a platform/architecture from GDB/GDBserver (I could
>> document it on the wiki if someone points me to it, if it's not already there).
>> If needed, we can announce these ports as deprecated for the next GDB release
>> (10.1 ?), and then merge this series in master right after we have created the
>> gdb-10-branch. Or if you think this is unnecessary, we can merge it right
>> away, I don't mind.
>
> I support removal of Lynx/Neutrino/WinCE, and have no opinion on the
> others. However, shouldn't there be a NEWS entry for this?

You are right, I'll send a 8/7 patch for that.

> Also, I didn't notice which patch changed gdbserver/README as per the
> diffstat, did I just miss that?

Patches 3, 4, and 5. But that will go away if this other patch goes in first, which
would be preferable.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168523.html

Simon