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Re: exact meaning of restart
- To: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Subject: Re: exact meaning of restart
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 09:21:20 +1100
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.991216223001.8449A-100000@world.std.com>
Quality Quorum wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Say I have embedded system, it got 'R' request, what it should do ?
>
> I have RTEMS/pc386 bootstrapped by the netboot off the linux box.
> Once it get 'R' it will do warm-boot. It seems like it gdb
> expects something else:
>
> 1. Gdb does not allow enough time to complete reboot.
> 2. Gdb does not repeat '!' request, so system could
> be rebooted remotely only once.
>
> I am not able to figure out what is required in the case.
>
> My only guess is that extended operations are limited to
> gdbserver like environments which allow fast restart and
> embedded systems should use target 'remote' and reboot themselves
> once 'kill' is received.
>
> Can anybody help ?
Yes. As far as is known ``!'' is limited to the GDB server.
Andrew