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Re: ARM RDI
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GDB <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:23:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: ARM RDI
- References: <438B8FAD.1020804@codesourcery.com> <1133259214.32658.36.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <20051129134436.GA22387@nevyn.them.org> <438C6192.10109@hogyros.de> <20051129142714.GA23172@nevyn.them.org> <438C95BF.10109@codesourcery.com> <20051129180326.GA29028@nevyn.them.org>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:03:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:54:07AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > > There are a number of other ways to use RDI besides rdi-share.
> >
> > Indeed.
> >
> > Some of the board vendors also ship GDB<->RDI converters. As you say, I
> > have very little confidence that the current rdi-share actually works
> > with most things.
> >
> > If consensus has been reached to remove rdi-share, may I post a patch
> > for review? Or, if we don't think we can get that consensus, how about
> > at least a patch to make it a configure-time option, off by default?
>
> Consensus can't be reached in one day :-)
>
> Let's come back to this next week, please.
Only Simon objected, and I haven't seen a reply to either Richard's or
my responses to him. Richard (the ARM port maintainer) and Andrew
(second-hand via Richard) were in favor. Anyone else have comments?
Otherwise, next week I intend to remove the rdi-share subdirectory and
its supporting code.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC