From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14876 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2005 05:34:53 -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 14862 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2005 05:34:49 -0000 Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:34:49 +0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5O5YkBf015926 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay4.apple.com (relay4.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.17) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:34:46 -0700 Received: from [17.112.104.225] ([17.112.104.225]) by relay4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5O5YiW9023073; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42BB9B74.6000306@apple.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:34:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell Shaw CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work? References: <42BB3CD4.30707@apple.com> <42BB4CD2.90708@netspace.net.au> In-Reply-To: <42BB4CD2.90708@netspace.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00224.txt.bz2 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. > Several of the ones I wrote were actually to talk to boards with existing ROM monitors, so there's a variety. Some of the boards targeted seem to have vanished pretty thoroughly - the only references Google can find are the mentions of them in the GDB documentation(!). Stan