Re: [rfc] [4/9] Cell multi-arch: Core of the Cell debugger

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:16:03 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Index: src/gdb/NEWS
> ===================================================================
> --- src.orig/gdb/NEWS
> +++ src/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -204,6 +204,20 @@ architecture in addition to those for th
>  See the "Target Description Format" section in the user manual for
>  more information.
>  
> +* Multi-architecture debugging.
> +
> +  GDB now includes general supports for debugging applications on
> +  hybrid systems that use more than one single processor architecture
> +  at the same time.  Each such hybrid architecture still requires
> +  specific support to be added.  The only hybrid architecture supported
> +  in this version of GDB is the Cell Broadband Engine.
> +
> +* GDB now supports integrated debugging of Cell/B.E. applications that
> +use both the PPU and SPU architectures.  To enable support for hybrid
> +Cell/B.E. debugging, you need to configure GDB to support both the
> +powerpc-linux or powerpc64-linux and the spu-elf targets, using the
> +--enable-targets configure option.
> +
>  * New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below)
>  
>  find [/size-char] [/max-count] start-address, end-address|+search-space-size,

This part is OK.