Cross-debugging interfaces known to still work?

[Stan Shebs]

Russell Shaw wrote:

> Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>> In digging through GDB sources trying to figure out which internal
>> APIs are OK for Apple's port (yes, yes, need to contribute :-) ),
>> I see that a number of the oddball-protocol remote interfaces
>> probably no longer work, and some, such as remote-mips.c, are going
>> unnoticed because they're not built into any config anymore. At the
>> same time, I'm not seeing very much mail traffic on anything besides
>> standard remote protocol, sim, and RDI for Arm.
>>
>> So my question is, do we have any information about who is actually
>> using or testing any of these other targets, either with current or
>> older versions of GDBs?
>>
>> Stan
>
>
> The "odd" protocols are used for adapting gdb to control a hardware
> ICE. I made one for an atmel avr ICE, but it's not maintained in the
> gdb sources yet.
>
Several of the ones I wrote were actually to talk to boards with
existing ROM monitors, so there's a variety. Some of the boards
targeted seem to have vanished pretty thoroughly - the only
references Google can find are the mentions of them in the GDB
documentation(!).

Stan