Re: ARM RDI

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:11, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >>>1) Remove rdi-share from GDB entirely.
> 
> >>I think this one is probably best now...  I discussed it with Andrew at
> >>the Summit and we agreed it was the way to go.  But like dejagnu removal
> >>it's taking a long time to finally do it...
> 
> > Does anyone object?  If not, let's just do it.
> 
> For a number of CPUs, RDI is the only standard there is; it is the kind 
> of "obsolete" where they want people to buy their newer CPUs, not the 
> kind where there is a better standard. I'm fairly certain that there are 
> several trees where RDI works just fine as there are a number of 
> companies selling gdb based solutions for older ARM CPUs; the 
> interesting part will be getting those changes back from them.

It's also obsolete in the GNU sense of 'nobody has stepped up to
maintain the code'.  


Are you volunteering?

R.