Patch to speed up remote protocol

[Andrew Cagney]

[Dropped ian, added stan; Policy question follows]

"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> I'm not sure I like the idea of setting GDB's support of the P packet
> from the CLI.  If it can be autonegotiated successfully (which my
> experience has shown to be true), there doesn't seem to be a need.  I
> do agree that once a stub accepts 'P', it should be expected to always
> support it within that debugging session.
> 
> As for names, it probably should have "remote" in the name to tie it
> to the other remote protocol variables.  Perhaps:
> 
>         remote-stub-supports-P-packet
>         remote-protocol-supports-P-packet
>         remote-protocol-supports-register-set

Is there a policy on second level set/show commands?  vis:

	set remote P-packet ...

polluting the top level with obscure protocol control commands is
certainly a problem.  (Assuming this is possible of course :-).

	Andrew