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

Pedro Alves
2020-05-15T10:19:10Z

On 5/14/20 6:43 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches 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).

It's here:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Obsoleting-code

(I kind of wish the internals manual hadn't been wikified, since it's
so hard to find stuff 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.
>
Thanks,
Pedro Alves