Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace dot net dot au>]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> 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.
> Several of the ones I wrote were actually to talk to boards with
> existing ROM monitors, so there's a variety. Some of the boards
> targeted seem to have vanished pretty thoroughly - the only
> references Google can find are the mentions of them in the GDB
> documentation(!).
>
> Stan

One thing they're useful for is as a reference to write a new one, because
how to do them is not otherwise documented.