exact meaning of restart

[Andrew Cagney]

Quality Quorum wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Say I have embedded system, it got 'R' request, what it should do ?
> 
> I have RTEMS/pc386 bootstrapped by the netboot off the linux box.
> Once it get 'R' it will do warm-boot. It seems like it gdb
> expects something else:
> 
> 1. Gdb does not allow enough time to complete reboot.
> 2. Gdb does not repeat '!' request, so system could
>    be rebooted remotely only once.
> 
> I am not able to figure out what is required in the case.
> 
> My only guess is that extended operations are limited to
> gdbserver like environments which allow fast restart and
> embedded systems should use target 'remote' and reboot themselves
> once 'kill' is received.
> 
> Can anybody help ?

Yes.  As far as is known ``!'' is limited to the GDB server.

	Andrew