Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:24:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46568 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504161424.t3GEOCDc088406@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brd Date: Thu Apr 16 14:24:11 2015 New Revision: 46568 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46568 Log: Add the GDB report from jhb@ Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Thu Apr 16 03:46:44 2015 (r46567) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Thu Apr 16 14:24:11 2015 (r46568) @@ -2490,4 +2490,65 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='bin'> + <title>Updates to GDB</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>John</given> + <common>Baldwin</common> + </name> + <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/bsdjhb/gdb/tree/freebsd-7.9.0-kgdb">Port of kgdb to gdb 7.9</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Several improvements to GDB have been merged upstream to GDB's + master branch over the past few months including fixes for + unwinding across signal trampoline frames on x86, removing the + procfs dependency from the gcore command, and support for XSAVE + extensions (such as AVX registers) on x86. These fixes are + already available in the existing devel/gdb port as patches + relative to 7.8.</p> + + <p>In addition, progress has been made on porting kgdb to newer + gdb. Currently only support for the amd64 backend has been + ported, but it is functional both for remote debugging and + against crash dumps. The current port generally has feature + parity with the kgdb in the base system. The plan for kgdb is + to fix it to always include all platform targets (so that it + always supports cross debugging for remote targets out of the + box). At some point it may also include cross debugging support + for crash dumps as well (this would require changes to libkvm). + </p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Tidy the amd64 port of kgdb and finish the i386 port. This + includes fixing these platform-specific targets to work with + cross-debugging for remote targets.</p> + </task> + <task> + <p>Add a KGDB option to the devel/gdb port to include kgdb + support.</p> + </task> + <task> + <p>Port the rest of the platform-specific targets for kgdb.</p> + </task> + <task> + <p>Write a new 1:1-only thread target for FreeBSD that can be + sent upstream.</p> + </task> + <task> + <p>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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