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WP has some background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix .Our tree has carried around (an older version of) this patch for some time.
Once upon a distant past, when tracepoint support was first added, GDB supported some sort of EMC device (probably a NAS or similar?) with an m68k processor. It was a bit different from other GDB targets and the main interest was tracepoints rather than full debugging. So bits sprang up in the testsuite to accomodate this device.
Ironically, the original tracepoint project was motivated by EMC's PowerPC transition - the 68k bits were just for testing in the meantime. (IIRC EMC never used GDB for 68k-target debugging at all!) So there's nothing lost by ditching those bits, and it will clear the field for updating to modern setup.
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