From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2293 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2004 07:47:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2286 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2004 07:47:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2004 07:47:52 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbxYb-0000Uy-PN; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 02:47:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 07:47:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Amit S. Kale" Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sources.redhat.com, peter@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, fvdl@netbsd.org, Jim Houston Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding %cs and %ss for AMD64 to GDB Message-ID: <20040101074749.GA1888@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Amit S. Kale" , Mark Kettenis , gdb@sources.redhat.com, peter@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, fvdl@netbsd.org, Jim Houston References: <200401010051.i010p5Yg016798@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <200401011144.29524.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401011144.29524.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:44:29AM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: > Mark, > > Linux kgdb indeed will not have much of a problem. I anyway have posted a gdb > with kernel module loading feature at kgdb.sourceforge.net. It's going to > stay there for till the time this feature makes it to official gdb. I can add > this change also to that gdb. > > I guess it's time to introduce a version stamp on remote protocol. That way > any further modifications to the protocol will not result in surprises from > gdb-gdbserver mismatches. Versioning the remote protocol as a whole isn't feasible, since there are so many variations. I've tentatively proposed a solution for the problem of changing register sets; it's just that neither I nor anyone else has had time to implement it :) Mark, I agree with your assessment. I don't think it will be a problem. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer