State of native LinuxPPC patches

[Edward Swarthout <swarthou at ibmoto dot com>]

> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:18:55 -0700
> From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
> 
> I got my patches working with the head of the development tree several
> weeks ago.  (Actually, Gary Thomas deserves a lot of the credit.)
> However there are a great many similarities between rs6000-tdep.c and
> the ppclinux-tdep.c.  I would really like to make the common parts
> truly common as well as revamp it so that it uses the gdbarch
> machinery, but this'll take more time than I have at the moment.  So
> it might be better for me to commit what I have so that linux/ppc is
> supported in the Cygnus tree.  Also, the longer I let my stuff sit,
> the more likely it is that certain global changes will break what I
> have working already.  (Because these global changes won't have
> happened to the linux/ppc stuff.)
> 

Are these patches available in a sandbox somewhere?

(Since there isn't native support yet, are they harmless enough to be
released in cvs before being tested?)

I have a LinuxPPC debug project I need to work on and I wanted to
switch to the latest gdb snapshot before I did much gdb work.

Thanks,
Ed
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Ed.Swarthout@motorola.com
Motorola Somerset Design Center
Austin, TX