From: Stan Shebs Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 02:19:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * NEWS: Mention new X packet and PowerPC variant support. X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f84e1784d47019302c7b2fd66dd160ad89fc0744;p=binutils-gdb.git * NEWS: Mention new X packet and PowerPC variant support. --- diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index f9f6292803a..9dfd06efb4f 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Mon Feb 8 18:10:50 1999 Stan Shebs + + * NEWS: Mention new X packet and PowerPC variant support. + 1999-02-08 Nick Clifton * configure.host: Add support for StrongARM host. @@ -5,9 +9,9 @@ Mon Feb 8 12:05:05 1999 David Taylor - * dsrec.c (make_srec): cast targ_addr to int in call to sprintf + * dsrec.c (make_srec): Cast targ_addr to int in call to sprintf otherwise on big endian machine with a bfd_vma of 64 bits, - *everything* gets loaded at location 0. (PR 18929) + *everything* gets loaded at location 0. Mon Jan 4 10:05:43 1999 Frank Ch. Eigler @@ -97,9 +101,9 @@ Tue Feb 2 17:36:29 1999 Elena Zannoni 1999-02-01 Jim Blandy - Allow PPC users to select which PPC/RS6000 variant they're debugging - at run-time. At the moment, the only thing this affects is the - set of registers visible. + Allow PPC users to select which PPC/RS6000 variant they're + debugging at run-time. At the moment, the only thing this affects + is the set of registers visible. * config/rs6000/tm-rs6000.h (REGISTER_NAME): Define this as a call to the function rs6000_register_name. (rs6000_register_name): Include extern decl. diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index e4c02d97ec2..08f48aeb3a6 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ M68K Linux m68*-*-linux* Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf* Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-* +* PowerPC Variants + +PowerPC configurations of GDB now support `set processor' to control +the register set in use. Available processor types include +rs6000, 403, 403GC, 505, 601, 602, 603, 604, 750, and 860. + * Readline 2.2 GDB now uses readline 2.2. @@ -44,6 +50,11 @@ it, build with --enable-tui. * GDB Remote protocol +A new protocol packet 'X' that writes binary data is now available. +Default behavior is to try 'X', then drop back to 'M' if the stub +fails to respond. The settable variable `remotebinarydownload' +allows explicit control over the use of 'X'. + For 64 bit targets, the memory packets ("M" and "m") can now contain a full 64 bit address. The class-obscure gdb command: set targetaddresssize 32