Re: ARM RDI

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-29T14:27:25Z

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:11:30PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> >>>1) Remove rdi-share from GDB entirely.
>
> >>I think this one is probably best now... I discussed it with Andrew at
> >>the Summit and we agreed it was the way to go. But like dejagnu removal
> >>it's taking a long time to finally do it...
>
> >Does anyone object? If not, let's just do it.
>
> For a number of CPUs, RDI is the only standard there is; it is the kind
> of "obsolete" where they want people to buy their newer CPUs, not the
> kind where there is a better standard. I'm fairly certain that there are
> several trees where RDI works just fine as there are a number of
> companies selling gdb based solutions for older ARM CPUs; the
> interesting part will be getting those changes back from them.

There are a number of other ways to use RDI besides rdi-share. I
believe Cygnus produced an RDI<->GDB conversion daemon and it may still
be available from Red Hat; I know CodeSourcery also ships such a
beast:

http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/faq.html#c_rdi

We're only talking about the in-tree copy of rdi-share, which is a
different beast alltogether. I don't even think it works with some
current RDI targets.

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Daniel Jacobowitz