Re: nindy protocol

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of the Nindy protocol specification or an old
> Intel gnu960 (aka CTOOLS) distribution that contains Nindy source?  I
> checked developer.intel.com, but the CTOOLS distributions currently
> available all have mon960 instead of Nindy.

I squirreled away a couple copies of CTOOLs when I was at Cygnus, but
I don't know if any were old enough to include Nindy sources still;
don't remember ever seeing actual Nindy sources.

> The reason I ask is because I'd like to get rid of the dcache_fetch()
> and dcache_poke() functions which are only used by remote-nindy.c and
> remote-bug.c.

IMHO we should officially declare Nindy support obsolete.  As you observed,
Intel now denies its existence :-), the last physical board I knew of
(at Cygnus) died ca 1996, and the last couple of years of GDB churning
probably broke the Nindy support, but nobody appears to have noticed,
or cared enough to report it as a bug.

I could do the research to justify obsoleting Nindy, then you'd be free
to whack the dcache functions (remote-bug.c is also an obsoletion
possibility BTW).

Stan