From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4933 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2008 20:23:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4922 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2008 20:23:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:22:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 27776 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2008 20:22:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 17 Jan 2008 20:22:52 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: mention gdb/gdbserver/README in gdb/README References: From: Jim Blandy Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:17:57 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00456.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Jim Blandy >> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:56:53 -0800 >> >> >> Does this change look okay? > > Yes, but maybe the ChangeLog entry should be more descriptive ("doc > fix" for a change in README says absolutely nothing). Committed as follows --- thanks. gdb/ChangeLog: 2008-01-17 Jim Blandy * README: Mention gdbserver/README. diff -r 9ed5b2935471 gdb/README --- a/gdb/README Thu Jan 17 11:42:36 2008 -0800 +++ b/gdb/README Thu Jan 17 12:17:13 2008 -0800 @@ -453,6 +453,10 @@ allows remote debugging for Unix applica allows remote debugging for Unix applications. gdbserver is only supported for some native configurations, including Sun 3, Sun 4, and Linux. +The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on gdbserver; in +particular, it explains how to build gdbserver for cross-debugging +(where gdbserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different +architecture than the host machine running GDB). There are a number of remote interfaces for talking to existing ROM monitors and other hardware: