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Re: gdbserver version quandry
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:10:58AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:50:00AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> >
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>I have recently completed a port of uClinux to the Xilinx Microblaze
> >>soft-processor architecture.
> >>
> >>http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux.
> >>
> >>I am now investigating providing gdbserver support for this architecture.
> >
> >If your gdb 5.0 port supports remote debugging at all, then probably
> >easiest is to take the most recent version of gdbserver and work from
> >that. Then adapt it to speak to your older client. Not much should be
> >required.
>
> Yes - microblaze gdb 5.0 does supoprt remote debugging. Xilinx never
> intended to support (uC)linux, so they wrote their own gdbserver-type
> program to run on the host, which then communicates with a stub on the
> target via a proprietary serial interface.
>
> So then, the question becomes: is there any info online about providing
> new arch support for gdb/gdbserver?
About gdb, see the gdbint manual. About gdbserver, no.
> Also looking at gdbserver version strings in the Makefiles - I see that
> gdbserver versions don't track gdb versions. In both the gdb5.0 and
> gdb5.1 distributions, the gdbserver version string is 4.12.3... ???
Didn't even know there was a version number. Gdbserver never displays
it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer