Target description specified unknown architecture "powerpc:common"

[John Breitenbach]

Hi,
  I've recently updated my gdb from 6.6 to a very recent snapshot (GNU 
gdb (GDB) 6.8.50.20090817-cvs)
and ran into the problem below when attempting to connect to my remote 
target.    I'm guessing its a configuration
problem, but haven't been able to find any clues.

gdb: host is ix86-Linux-RHEL4, target: powerpc-750-linux-gnu
gdbserver: --host=powerpc-750-linux-gnu

Thanks,
John

(gdb) target remote bob8:1234
Remote debugging using bob8:1234
warning: while parsing target description (at line 13): Target 
description specified unknown architecture "powerpc:common"
warning: Could not load XML target description; ignoring
Remote sent bad register number 40: 0f3a68bc;thread:439;
Packet: 'T0501:523c7570;40:0f3a68bc;thread:439;'