From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98080 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2016 22:19:17 -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 98058 invoked by uid 89); 30 Mar 2016 22:19:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sdi, boards, headsup, peace X-HELO: mailapp01.imgtec.com Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com (HELO mailapp01.imgtec.com) (195.59.15.196) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:19:05 +0000 Received: from hhmail02.hh.imgtec.org (unknown [10.100.10.20]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id 52C5A2BF14790; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:18:59 +0100 (IST) Received: from [10.100.200.215] (10.100.200.215) by hhmail02.hh.imgtec.org (10.100.10.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.266.1; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:19:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:19:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Pedro Alves CC: Yao Qi , Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Remove support for "target m32rsdi" and "target mips/pmon/ddb/rockhopper/lsi" In-Reply-To: <56F13269.8020602@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1458230389-28233-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <8637rivld3.fsf@gmail.com> <56F13269.8020602@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00580.txt.bz2 On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Pedro Alves wrote: > >> Ref: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2016-03/msg00004.html > >> > >> This removes support for: > >> > >> | target | source | > >> |-------------------+-----------------------| > >> | target m32rsdi | gdb/remote-m32r-sdi.c | > >> | target mips | gdb/remote-mips.c | > >> | target pmon | gdb/remote-mips.c | > >> | target ddb | gdb/remote-mips.c | > >> | target rockhopper | gdb/remote-mips.c | > >> | target lsi | gdb/remote-mips.c | > >> > >> That is: > >> > >> - Remote M32R debugging over SDI. > >> > >> - Debugging boards using the MIPS remote debugging protocol > >> over a serial line, PMON, and a few variants. > >> > >> These are the last non-"target remote" remote targets in the tree, if > >> you don't count "target sim". > > > > I am OK on this, but I'd like to hear what does Maciej (cc'ed) think. Thanks for the heads-up! > FWIW, I didn't think this would affect MIPS in any way, given that > I couldn't find a single bug report for any of these targets in > bugzilla. I don't mean open bugs, I mean, any, ever, other than > build failure issues. I don't recall anyone mentioning anything > related to these targets on the gdb or gdb-patches lists, ever, > either. It seems like google searches for these targets only hit > the gdb documentation, and my suggestion to remove them on > the gdb@ list [1]. :-) Indeed, all this is old enough I didn't see any actual use myself either. All my activity with remote-mips.c was to adjust the source to keep it compiling or to match changes made elsewhere. This was from ~2005 on, which is when I got to it first. > Also, I thought of MIPS's earlier focus on MDI, and knowing that > even that one was pushed out of tree years ago, my thinking was > that the risk of this affecting anyone in practice > approximates zero. For the record, the MDI target hasn't actually ever made it in the first place. Anyway, having read your request to remove remote-mips.c I was fairly sure it could go, but to be double sure I asked around too, to see if there could be any legacy users. All replies were negative, so I'm fine to let it rest in peace. I can't speak of remote-m32r-sdi.c. Maciej