Re: ARM RDI

Richard Earnshaw
2005-11-29T14:20:27Z

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:11, 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.

It's also obsolete in the GNU sense of 'nobody has stepped up to
maintain the code'.

Are you volunteering?

R.