[PATCH 18/18] document the new VxWorks port

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Thu Mar 3 13:44:00 GMT 2011


> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Why not "info wtx partitions", or some other variant to make sure this
> > is VxWorks specific?  "info partitions" is too general to reserve for
> > a niche platform.
> 
> The reason why this hasn't been put under the "wtx" prefix is because
> I don't consider partitions to be a VxWorks-specific concept.  I don't
> know very much about the specifics, but I think that partitions are
> defined by ARINC 653. But, beyond ARINC 653, I think that this concept
> can be used in many areas, and we might find one day another platform
> where the concept of partitions is used as well.
> 
> Right now, the implementation we have in GDB is ad hoc, and WTX calls
> are hard-coded inside the partition support code.  However, my plan,
> if I have the courage and enough rainy days, is to make that entirely
> generic, so that the code can be shared with other platforms that might
> come up which also provides a form of partition support.
> 
> I hope that answers your concerns.

Yes, thanks.  The patch is fine to go in.



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