Re: Porting advice or documentation request

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Richard Earnshaw writes:
 > > Hi all,
 > > 
 > > I'm working on this new gdb port, and more than often I'm stuck. I have 
 > > been told that the d10v port is the most authorative template for how 
 > > new targets should be written. Unfortunately it is impossible to learn 
 > > anything about the d10v's hardware architecture on the net, so I find it 
 > > a bit difficult to template from.
 > 
 > I can sympathise.  I've tried on a couple of occasions to update the ARM 
 > target to use the new interfaces and I've repeatedly run into situations 
 > where the GDB's abstraction model is just not obvious from staring at the 
 > code.
 > 
 > Andrew, I think we really need a 10,000 ft view document on gdb's internal 
 > architecture to complement the list of macros that a target can define...
 > 
 > R.
 > 


I think checking out the new i386 frame branch could help here
too. Mark updated the i386 to use the new frame stuff, so that could
be used as example.

elena