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

Christian Biesinger
2020-05-14T19:08:15Z

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?

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

Christian