Progress indicator on loading

[Maxim Grigoriev]

> The MI -target-download already does
> report progress, based on write size.

My colleagues want to have similar feature for the "load" command.
If it's reasonable to implement it could be an extra option to this command.

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:59:49AM -0800, Maxim Grigoriev wrote:
>   
>> Hi GDB developers,
>>
>> One of my colleagues asked me if I can implement and
>> submit a progress indicator showing how the loading
>> process is going through a slow interface. It would be
>> reasonable to do only if GDB community is interested
>> in such a feature.
>>     
>
> We've been bouncing around ideas internally at CodeSourcery for how
> improve progress reporting.  But that's mostly for the new flash
> programming interface.  Where else do you need a progress indicator
> that you don't have one already?  The MI -target-download already does
> report progress, based on write size.
>
>