Re: gdbserver version quandry

[John Williams <jwilliams at itee dot uq dot edu dot au>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

OK thanks.  Looking at versions of gdbserver post gdb5.2, it's cleaned 
up a lot, and I can easily work with what's there.

> > 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.

It's in the Makefile - not sure if it actually goes anywhere though.

Cheers,

John