From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] document the new VxWorks port
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Pv8pL-0007Jr-3X@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303121600.GX30306@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0400)
> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > Why not "info wtx partitions", or some other variant to make sure this
> > is VxWorks specific? "info partitions" is too general to reserve for
> > a niche platform.
>
> The reason why this hasn't been put under the "wtx" prefix is because
> I don't consider partitions to be a VxWorks-specific concept. I don't
> know very much about the specifics, but I think that partitions are
> defined by ARINC 653. But, beyond ARINC 653, I think that this concept
> can be used in many areas, and we might find one day another platform
> where the concept of partitions is used as well.
>
> Right now, the implementation we have in GDB is ad hoc, and WTX calls
> are hard-coded inside the partition support code. However, my plan,
> if I have the courage and enough rainy days, is to make that entirely
> generic, so that the code can be shared with other platforms that might
> come up which also provides a form of partition support.
>
> I hope that answers your concerns.
Yes, thanks. The patch is fine to go in.
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 17:49 Add support for VxWorks 5.x, 6.x and 653 Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:49 ` [PATCH 01/18] Some ada-lang/ada-tasks routines needed by the VxWorks target Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:50 ` [PATCH 03/18] New general purpose routines in utils.c Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 19:06 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:50 ` [PATCH 04/18] add new "unload" command (symetry of existing "load" command) Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-24 17:50 ` [PATCH 02/18] New command_post observer Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 18:58 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:51 ` [PATCH 05/18] new struct bp_target_info target_private_data field Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:54 ` [PATCH 06/18] New module remote-wtx-utils Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 19:26 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:54 ` [PATCH 09/18] VxWorks breakpoint-handling module Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:54 ` [PATCH 08/18] Add options to control Vxworks related settings Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:55 ` [PATCH 10/18] "multi-tasks-mode" support Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 11/18] Add partition support Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 16:17 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 07/18] remote-wtxapi: The WTX API abstraction layer Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 19:44 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:57 ` [PATCH 13/18] Add new "wtx" target Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 16:15 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-25 17:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:57 ` [PATCH 12/18] remote-wtx-hw: register fetch/store support Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:57 ` [PATCH 14/18] WTX-TCL support module Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 15:59 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-25 18:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-28 15:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-24 17:58 ` [PATCH 15/18] Add support for VxWorks 6 Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:59 ` [PATCH 17/18] Configury and Makefile updates for VxWorks Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 17:59 ` [PATCH 16/18] Add tdep files for x86 and powerpc Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 18:58 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-02-25 8:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 18:04 ` [PATCH 18/18] document the new VxWorks port Joel Brobecker
2011-02-24 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 11:12 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-02-25 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 11:38 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-02-25 11:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 13:26 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-02-25 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 11:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 11:55 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-02-25 11:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 12:01 ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-25 14:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 14:44 ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-25 15:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 12:05 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-02-25 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 12:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-25 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 14:11 ` Jerome Guitton
2011-03-03 12:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-03 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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