Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au>]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> 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

One thing they're useful for is as a reference to write a new one, because
how to do them is not otherwise documented.