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To: "Will Schmidt" <willschm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com,
   Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  new support for PPC64 architecture
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:33:00 -0000
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"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.