From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29825 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2005 03:21:02 -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 29762 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2005 03:20:59 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:20:59 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.51) id 1DlekT-0004Ya-1J; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:20:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:21:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Russell Shaw Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work? Message-ID: <20050624032056.GB17083@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Russell Shaw , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <42BB3CD4.30707@apple.com> <42BB4CD2.90708@netspace.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42BB4CD2.90708@netspace.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:59:14AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > Stan Shebs wrote: > >In digging through GDB sources trying to figure out which internal > >APIs are OK for Apple's port (yes, yes, need to contribute :-) ), > >I see that a number of the oddball-protocol remote interfaces > >probably no longer work, and some, such as remote-mips.c, are going > >unnoticed because they're not built into any config anymore. At the > >same time, I'm not seeing very much mail traffic on anything besides > >standard remote protocol, sim, and RDI for Arm. > > > >So my question is, do we have any information about who is actually > >using or testing any of these other targets, either with current or > >older versions of GDBs? > > > >Stan > > The "odd" protocols are used for adapting gdb to control a hardware > ICE. I made one for an atmel avr ICE, but it's not maintained in the > gdb sources yet. > But most people who want to control an ICE do it in a sensibly componentized way nowadays, and just use remote.c. Stan, no, we don't have much information about this. The RDI bits don't really work, but people may be using them anyway. Beyond that I strongly suspect the rest of the remote-* interfaces are dead. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC