Re: [PATCH] new support for PPC64 architecture

Will Schmidt
2003-05-13T22:59:04Z

Those steps sound good to me. :-)

Elena, were you able to get your build to complete?

willschm@us.ibm.com
Linux on PowerPC-64 Development
IBM Rochester

Jim Blandy
<jimb@redhat.com> To: Will Schmidt/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com, Elena Zannoni
05/13/2003 05:38 <ezannoni@redhat.com>
PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] new support for PPC64 architecture

"Will Schmidt" <willschm@us.ibm.com> writes:
> This patch contains code that provides support for GDB on the PPC64
> architecture. This patch will apply clean on top of the RedHat
> gdb-5.3post-0.20021129.29.src.rpm. (A patch against CVS will
> happen, but not today.. )

Okay --- here are the next steps, as I see them:

- As you say, get the patch to apply and run against current sources.
This can happen without worrying about bringing the patch in line
with current requirements for contributions: multi-arch, using new
interfaces, etc.

- Get a test suite run with those sources that we can use as a
baseline for evaluating subsequent work.

- Worry about multi-arch, new interfaces, etc. This should be pretty
easy going, since both tasks break down into (possibly large) sets
of small, mostly independent changes. It'll be easy to work
incrementally, and share the job.