Re: Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work?

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

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