From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1679 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2017 13:07:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1656 invoked by uid 89); 22 Nov 2017 13:07:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=authentication, Hx-languages-length:1292, Authentication, H*r:sk:static. X-HELO: mail-wm0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:07:06 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id x63so10030454wmf.4 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:07:06 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I8k4ep6GyM0zbfPFIhq2A/Nq7rqLH+/6Pg8cTZ6rnQU=; b=neqafD5oZWseOzoPmQglNNxVh5cYEduwR9SiR62pEsUW3bXeJO8ktAYya5mTBVAO3Z mI520N+DiMruc6aROiWRtbjMELc6MBDW+HdD5hh9U2TKHZjovpA2AIZszPhw8rDo65K7 wbzfuh66fQaBHJ/kisihjQzBDGPKIKs0dMmOM85Gs8JBogetdUUYDSo4eGQQF+cJADgq 0mFm8rCrFfNLm+241+defXci8vE10AUeWQ3FGXJ7tl2JSjvsMpSukw1CwGuinNfy5zdC JZ7gahuRMbWMod7bHgCtL5ghJPkRgWh6wDfpF3B205bcldm1tZLVPBxiuePmO52/f3x9 OtFg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX4dyjtJXqdDYmZxqMXMDZmOmAfN9IQUfKd2hQDettl9tiw1KdVR eVM57twgXZDrkkPp6+D7QHGMtg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMbdQuiL/k7G67f3/qaT3LmMb0ysP4B+Q6Ezi1McoYZNFd68uT4oSEOT/xec81JcZB4pfGdBpg== X-Received: by 10.28.55.82 with SMTP id e79mr4438642wma.60.1511356024188; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from E107787-LIN (static.42.136.251.148.clients.your-server.de. [148.251.136.42]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r14sm38636598wrb.43.2017.11.22.05.07.03 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:07:03 -0800 (PST) From: Yao Qi To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch? In-Reply-To: <20171120191510.clz2ywdyknuftzrh@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:15:10 -0800") References: <20171120191510.clz2ywdyknuftzrh@adacore.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: <86h8tmsbrg.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00490.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker writes: > Are there any changes that would be worth waiting for before we branch > 8.1? If not, I plan on creating the branch next Monday (Nov 27th). Hi Joel, Arm still has pending patch series about new ARMv8.3-A Pointer Authentication feature support in GDB. They were posted in Aug, and reviewed, https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00174.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00175.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00171.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00172.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00173.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00176.html The GDB support needs the new regset provided by Linux kernel, so these GDB patches can't go in until the kernel patches are merged. I think kernel patches will be merged in several (5?) weeks, is it OK to get these GDB patches into 8.1 release (mainline first and backport to 8.1 branch)? To be clear, I don't expect GDB 8.1 release should be delayed in case that kernel patches merge won't happen in several weeks. The reason I ask this is that I want to make sure we are OK to merge such new feature support to release branch. --=20 Yao (=E9=BD=90=E5=B0=A7)