Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gdb: provide the name of the architecture in the target.xml

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 September 2014 16:23, Jens Freimann <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
>
> This patch provides the name of the architecture in the target.xml if 
> available.
>
> This allows the remote gdb to detect the target architecture on its own - so
> there is no need to specify it manually (e.g. if gdb is started without a
> binary) using "set arch *arch_name*".
>
> The name of the architecture has been added to all archs that provide a
> target.xml (by supplying a gdb_core_xml_file) and have a unique architecture
> name in gdb's feature xml files.

gdb seems to support more than one powerpc architecture
name. Do we need to report "powerpc:e500" for
our e500 cpu models, for instance?

-- PMM