Support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture (1 of 3)

Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com
Sat Sep 12 18:35:00 GMT 2009


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>                                                       By default
>> +@code{xmd} uses port @code{1234}.
> 
> Is there a way to change this default, and if so, should we let the
> user know how to do that?

There's documentation in the Xilinx EDK/SDK or running "xmd --help"
lists the options.  I believe that there is an option to set the port.

Do you think that xmd should be described in the gdb info?  Or
only this option?

> 
>> +@item target remote XMD-HOST:1234
>> +@kindex target remote xmd-host>:1234
>> +Use this command to connect to the target if you are running @value{GDBN}
>> +on a different system @code{xmd}, which is running on @code{XMD-HOST}.
> 
> I understand that XMD-HOST stands for the real name of the host.  If
> so, we use the @var markup in Texinfo for this:
> 
>   +@item target remote @var{xmd-host}:1234
>   +Use this command to connect to the target if you are running @value{GDBN}
>   +on a different system @code{xmd}, which is running on @var{xmd-host}.

Sure.

> Finally, the index entries you have are not useful: they all are for
> commands that are not specific to the XMD target, and already have
> index entries elsewhere in the manual, where the general form of these
> commands is described.  What is needed in this section is @cindex
> entries about the XMD itself, so that the reader could easily find
> this section.  So I suggest these entries immediately after the
> @subsection line:
> 
>   @cindex Xilinx MicroBlaze
>   @cindex XMD, Xilinx Microprocessor Debugger

I'll pull the generic index entries and add these.

> Okay with these changes.


Thanks.


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