Re: gdbserver extension

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Martin Rivers wrote:
> 
> Not sure if anyone is interested but I've got a version of gdbserver
> which supports debugging mips cpu's on linux, at least 43xx and 52xx
> flavors of mips.  I've attached source.  You can include or ignore as
> you see fit.  I'm sure the normal "gnu" programmers will look at this
> and have a fit as normal coding styles aren't incorporated.  However,
> the changes to low-linux.c incorporate appropriate information to
> understand the mips architecture appropriately to allow remote debugging
> (which is what I needed). I've used this with both gdb-4.18 and gdb-5.0
> successfully.
> 

Martin, we may *love* your patch, but we won't be able to incorporate it
without
an assignment of your work to the FSF signed from your employee.

That is necessary to prevent legal problems that can eventually affect
the availability
of GDB as a whole.

With regards to the question if it would be nice to incorporate it or
not I am not
the best person to give an opinion.  I does seem a great achievement
though.

And thanks for the offer anyway.

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