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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@wdc.com>, Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
Cc: jiangshuai_li@c-sky.com,
	"Andrew Burgess" <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	guoren@kernel.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	夏立方 <lifang_xia@c-sky.com>, yunhai_shang <yunhai_shang@c-sky.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: add gdbserver support
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a15e9f5-099f-3be0-e3f1-0e17c2959158@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2001202307240.15714@redsun52.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com>

On 2020-01-20 6:33 p.m., Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Offhand I can see the proposal fails to implement XML register 
> descriptions, which I think every modern port is expected to do (we also 
> need to disallow non-XML-enabled RISC-V stubs in GDB proper, as we 
> discussed before; I fail to understand why it wasn't done right away with 
> the initial implementation, as it's quite straightforward and would have 
> set the policy for debug stubs right from the beginning).

I would also expect new ports to use XML target descriptions.  And I see
that there is already code in arch/riscv.c to build target descriptions based
on detected features... so should gdbserver use it?

Simon

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/arch/riscv.c;h=a3ab8a92909f082754dfd6eb9a70f19153b8684f;hb=HEAD

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15  5:01 jiangshuai_li
2020-01-20 23:33 ` Jim Wilson
2020-01-21  0:30   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-01-21  2:13     ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-01-21  2:17       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-01-21 13:01       ` Andrew Burgess
2020-01-21 13:28         ` Andrew Burgess
2020-01-21 13:47           ` Andreas Schwab
2020-01-22  0:11             ` Jim Wilson
2020-01-22  0:45           ` Jim Wilson
2020-01-22 10:19             ` Jim Wilson
2020-01-22 14:08               ` Andrew Burgess
2020-01-21 17:11         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-01-21 23:56     ` Jim Wilson
2020-01-22  5:26   ` Guo Ren
2020-01-22  6:15     ` Jim Wilson

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