From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69648 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2015 18:59:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 69622 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jul 2015 18:58:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: mail-yk0-f169.google.com Received: from mail-yk0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-yk0-f169.google.com) (209.85.160.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:58:57 +0000 Received: by ykey15 with SMTP id y15so19821567yke.3 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:58:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=qufGMyBk97CiuckzXueW92dGQmei5VaNPAiCGcVTRYk=; b=LpAemqTWURw0hC4ZDvqWNb5177KTE7F3S6wm8j4r2Z5+y24c9CLKbIexZZ1PgnzCbN HDPsyaxLr9jaDOM5orCVTLocinX1PJkZMzRM3lkQRR+3wW8HeqtgB1tm7xwUf1v+w3gb 82KG/RMl+qry3XwwgW0/ONU237jNh80WR9cCiQxa5UrCCR3vfNzO5Aw8lcirBlrE110+ JEewv4xEudmBslR0jXWbJtNjnjf09MDkd3XORMyp5CxTsWawjxl29Grv+Y6iM5Nnah5V DDNJQlaRoCLUMrQQK7awHVNsJH2lLmz7OUznZzTboAVCfp0pbVKutR3rHKSIruCZfyKO rWsA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkZ0Dyk0eYVokivz3FoqlO7ndg0osZQ1g8NCiCNMebU5ORdwfed2srvIn95g+1c1PdMeAPa MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.170.84.215 with SMTP id b206mr13239336yka.21.1436381935684; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.129.104.6 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 11:58:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <559D6FB0.9070103@redhat.com> References: <559D6FB0.9070103@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: delete target dbug/picobug/dink32/m32r/mon2000 ? From: Stan Shebs To: Pedro Alves Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Pedro Alves wrote: > All of these targets use gdb/monitor.c, which has bit rotted > years ago (I'd guess around ~6), and nobody seems to > have noticed. > > I propose deleting them (along with monitor.c): > > | target | source | > |----------------+----------------------| > | target dbug | gdb/dbug-rom.c | > | target picobug | gdb/microblaze-rom.c | > | target dink32 | gdb/dink32-rom.c | > | target m32r | gdb/m32r-rom.c | > | target mon2000 | gdb/m32r-rom.c | I agree, that's an infrastructure whose time has come and gone. (Not much call for traditional ROM monitors when one can just as easily boot to a real OS instead!) We would see references to people using monitor backends from time to time, but I haven't seen any mentions (with either new or old GDBs) in several years. Stan