Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:59:14AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Stan Shebs wrote:
> >In digging through GDB sources trying to figure out which internal
> >APIs are OK for Apple's port (yes, yes, need to contribute :-) ),
> >I see that a number of the oddball-protocol remote interfaces
> >probably no longer work, and some, such as remote-mips.c, are going
> >unnoticed because they're not built into any config anymore. At the
> >same time, I'm not seeing very much mail traffic on anything besides
> >standard remote protocol, sim, and RDI for Arm.
> >
> >So my question is, do we have any information about who is actually
> >using or testing any of these other targets, either with current or
> >older versions of GDBs?
> >
> >Stan
> 
> The "odd" protocols are used for adapting gdb to control a hardware
> ICE. I made one for an atmel avr ICE, but it's not maintained in the
> gdb sources yet.
> 

But most people who want to control an ICE do it in a sensibly
componentized way nowadays, and just use remote.c.

Stan, no, we don't have much information about this.  The RDI bits
don't really work, but people may be using them anyway.  Beyond that I
strongly suspect the rest of the remote-* interfaces are dead.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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