[Mohammed El Shobaki] GNU:are

[Mohammed El Shobaki] GNU:are

[Jonas Oberg]

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This user sent me a question in Swedish, thinking I knew something
about gdb. Since I don't; I'm passing it on. He wants to get in
touch with someone who knows how to port gdb to PowerPC (on the target
side). He also wants to know if there are any stubs for running gdb
over TCP/IP.  He's doing some research into setting up a GNU environment
for the multiprocessorsystem (research system with 3 PPC750).


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From: Mohammed El Shobaki <mei@mdh.se>
To: jonas@coyote.org
Subject: GNU:are

Hej,

Hur är det med dina kunskaper i gdb, känner du till närmare detaljer om hur
man portar gdb till PowerPC (på targetsidan) och om det finns stubbar för
att köra över TCP/IP???

(Håller på och gör efterforskningar kring vad som behövs för att sätta upp
en GNU-miljö för vårt multiprocessorsystem (forskningsystem med 3 PPC750)
som skall användas i nästa DREA-projekt.)

Mvh
//Mohammed

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Mälardalens högskola                      Mob:     +46 70 - 717 35 85
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Re: [Mohammed El Shobaki] GNU:are

[Jim Blandy]

> This user sent me a question in Swedish, thinking I knew something
> about gdb. Since I don't; I'm passing it on. He wants to get in
> touch with someone who knows how to port gdb to PowerPC (on the target
> side). He also wants to know if there are any stubs for running gdb
> over TCP/IP.  He's doing some research into setting up a GNU environment
> for the multiprocessorsystem (research system with 3 PPC750).

At present, GDB already has PowerPC support --- just not native
PowerPC support.  Configure it with something like
--target=powerpc-elf; see configure.tgt for details.

It even has some MPC750 support, although that's only been tested with
the simulator.  There's still some work needed to the target protocol
to make it work with a real machine (i.e. handling the special-purpose
registers), but I don't know of any other difficulties.

Re: [Mohammed El Shobaki] GNU:are

[Stan Shebs]

   From: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>
   Date: 08 Mar 1999 09:26:15 -0500

   > This user sent me a question in Swedish, thinking I knew something
   > about gdb. Since I don't; I'm passing it on. He wants to get in
   > touch with someone who knows how to port gdb to PowerPC (on the target
   > side). He also wants to know if there are any stubs for running gdb
   > over TCP/IP.  He's doing some research into setting up a GNU environment
   > for the multiprocessorsystem (research system with 3 PPC750).

   At present, GDB already has PowerPC support --- just not native
   PowerPC support.  Configure it with something like
   --target=powerpc-elf; see configure.tgt for details.

Just to be pedantic, GDB *does* have native PowerPC AIX support, and
it might even be that the PowerPC NT support still works, although
it's probably bitrotted along with PPC NT in general :-) .  It's only
the Linux support that is awaiting copyright assignment - or an
alternate set of unemcumbered patches.

							Stan