[rfa] NEWS additions for flash

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Sep 21 14:18:00 GMT 2006


This patch adds news entries for the flash patches I've just checked
in.  Is this OK?

The next release is shaping up to be quite an improvement.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

2006-09-21  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>

	* NEWS: Mention flash support for "load" and new remote packets.

Index: gdb/NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.197
diff -u -p -r1.197 NEWS
--- gdb/NEWS	16 Aug 2006 20:33:23 -0000	1.197
+++ gdb/NEWS	21 Sep 2006 14:16:05 -0000
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ supported.
 * The "set trust-readonly-sections" command works again.  This command was
 broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5.
 
+* The "load" command now supports writing to flash memory, when the remote
+stub provides the required support.
+
 * New commands
 
 set substitute-path
@@ -52,6 +55,15 @@ qXfer:auxv:read:
   Fetch an OS auxilliary vector from the remote stub.  This packet is a
   more efficient replacement for qPart:auxv:read.
 
+qXfer:memory-map:read:
+  Fetch a memory map from the remote stub, including information about
+  RAM, ROM, and flash memory devices.
+
+vFlashErase:
+vFlashWrite:
+vFlashDone:
+  Erase and program a flash memory device.
+
 * Removed remote packets
 
 qPart:auxv:read:



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