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@ 2010-04-25 15:47 Joel Brobecker
  2010-04-25 15:47 ` [vxworks 01/14] Some ada-lang/ada-tasks routines needed by the " Joel Brobecker
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Joel Brobecker @ 2010-04-25 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

Hello,

The following series of patches adds support for cross debugging
VxWorks targets (version 5.x, 6.x and limited support for VxWorks 653).
It's a lot of code overall, and many patches, but it is almost
completely contained in dedicated files, and we've split the changes
in modules/patches, hoping to make it easier for anyone wanting to
look at them.

With VxWorks systems, we communicate with the target by establishing
a connection with the "target server".  The target server is a server
running on a host which acts as a multiplexer.  The protocol used
between the target server and the target itself is undocumented, and
extremely version/system dependent. The protocol used to talk to the
target server is not documented per se, but WindRiver provides an API
that allows us to do the communication.

What we do, in this port, is use the API to send the various request.
The one problem with the API is that it is not all that stable across
versions - compatibility of the API between WTX versions (we support
versions 2, 3 and 4) is not guaranteed.  As a result, we created a thin
abstraction on top of the WTX API that Wind River provides which allowed
us to have that consistent API, making the real code a *LOT* simpler.

As you will see if you read the description of some of the patches,
there are a couple of things that we implemented one way which is
definitly on the quick-and-dirty how-else-could-I-do-it-without-
making-changes-everywhere side.  I've pulled these changes out for now,
and we intend to discuss those issues separately in order to find
the proper way to fix them.  The only side-effect of pulling these
changes out, as it turns out, is that we are losing support for
partitions in VxWorks 653 systems.

Lastly, these patches were tested on VxWorks 5.x and VxWorks 6.x
using AdaCore's testsuite. We were actually quite surprised at
the almost clean results we got! :)

Documentation will of course follow if the patches make it in the FSF
tree...

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2010-04-25 15:47 Adding support for VxWorks target Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:47 ` [vxworks 01/14] Some ada-lang/ada-tasks routines needed by the " Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 03/14] New module remote-wtx-utils Joel Brobecker
2010-04-26 18:55   ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-27 16:27     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 14/14] Configury and Makefile updates for VxWorks Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 02/14] New command_post observer Joel Brobecker
2010-04-26 18:51   ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-27 14:22     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-27 17:16       ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 10/14] Add new "wtx" target Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 09/14] remote-wtx-hw / register fetch/store support Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 13/14] Add tdep files for x86 and powerpc Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 20:45   ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-26 16:41     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 11/14] WTX-TCL support module Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:48 ` [vxworks 08/14] Partition support Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:56 ` [vxworks 07/14] "multi-tasks-mode" support Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:56 ` [vxworks 06/14] VxWorks breakpoint-handling module Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:56 ` [vxworks 05/14] Add options to control Vxworks related settings Joel Brobecker
2010-05-04 15:25   ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:56 ` [vxworks 12/14] Add support for VxWorks 6 Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 16:01 ` [vxworks 04/14] remote-wtxapi: The WTX API abstraction layer Joel Brobecker
2010-05-04 14:58 ` Adding support for VxWorks target Joel Brobecker
2010-05-04 15:43   ` Stan Shebs
2010-05-04 18:30     ` one big unit or several smaller units? (was: "Re: Adding support for VxWorks target") Joel Brobecker
2010-11-25  0:53 ` Adding support for VxWorks target Joel Brobecker

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