Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] configure: gate our use of GDB to 8.3.1 or above

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 15:36, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Certain earlier versions of GDB have (possibly distro) derived issues
>> when running against multiarch guests. Also given the problem of
>> clashing ports it is preferable to use socket comms rather than TCP
>> ports for testing.
>
> What's a "multiarch guest" ?

I guess non-native guest would be another way of saying it. There is
some hoop jumping to deal with the fact that some arches package up a
fully featured multiarch aware gdb and some package up the multiarch one
as a separate gdb-multiarch package.

> Incidentally I think the problem I have been running into
> with the Ubuntu gdb 8.1 is that it doesn't support registers
> larger than 64 bytes, and if AArch64 QEMU is emulating SVE
> then it tries to expose registers bigger than that to the
> gdbstub.

So this is a missing patch from Ubuntu's gdb?

We could just peg the sha1 test to cortex-a57 - your are likely not
getting the SVE tests running unless you have the compilers to build
them (or using docker).

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


-- 
Alex Bennée