Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:42:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47609 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510172242.t9HMgRUb016088@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Oct 17 22:42:26 2015 New Revision: 47609 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47609 Log: Add gdb report from jhb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 21:40:34 2015 (r47608) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 22:42:26 2015 (r47609) @@ -2452,4 +2452,68 @@ </body> </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://reviews.FreeBSD.org/D3341">Extend libkvm to + support cross-debugging of vmcores</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Support for following children after forks for &os; was implemented and + merged upstream to GDB's master branch, and was included in GDB + 7.10.</p> + + <p>Work has continued on porting <tt>kgdb</tt> to newer + <tt>gdb</tt>. The amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 + backends have all been ported and are now available via a new + <tt>KGDB</tt> option in the devel/gdb port.</p> + + <p>The MD backends for libkvm have been rewritten to support + cross-debugging crashdumps, and the <tt>kgdb</tt> targets for + amd64 and i386 have been reworked to support cross-debugging. + Both i386 and amd64 kgdb binaries have been able to cross-debug + the other architecture's vmcores with these changes. This + changeset for libkvm is not yet in the tree, but is awaiting more + testing.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Test the libkvm changes on platforms other than amd64, i386, + and powerpc64.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Figure out why the powerpc kgdb targets are not able to unwind + the stack past the initial frame.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add support for more platforms (arm, mips, aarch64) to + upstream gdb for both userland and kgdb.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Write a new 1:1-only thread target for &os; 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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