"GDB remote protocol?"

"GDB remote protocol?"

[xinan tang]

Hi

  Under .../gdb/gdb subdirectories( release v6.1), there are six targets
that use the gdb remote protocols and those targets have their
corresponding *-stub.c file.

  For other targets, I found out files with names of *-remote.c such as
file remote-mips.c. Does remote-mips.c use the GDB remote protocol or
other protocol specialized for MIPS vendors?

Thanks

--Xinan

Re: "GDB remote protocol?"

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"xinan tang" <xinan@TidalNetworks.net> writes:

>   For other targets, I found out files with names of *-remote.c such as
> file remote-mips.c. Does remote-mips.c use the GDB remote protocol or
> other protocol specialized for MIPS vendors?

remote-mips.c uses a different protocol which is completely different
from the GDB remote protocol.  I can't remember who developed it, but
I think it was IDT.  The protocol framing is described in a long
comment starting around line 150 of the file.  The protocol commands
are described in a comment before the function mips_request().
Looking at the code, I see that some new commands have been added here
and there; I'm not sure whether those are documented in the file
anywhere.

Ian