From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:23:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] gdb: don't block building on AArch64 systems In-Reply-To: References: <1407244453-3082-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org> <20140805162059.26366e25@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87wqamja43.fsf@linaro.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Will Newton writes: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Petazzoni > wrote: >> Dear Alex Benn?e, >> >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:14:13 +0100, Alex Benn?e wrote: >>> There is no real reason to disable the building of GDB. I suspect the >>> original patch (be084204) which added the restriction did so not >>> realising that AArch64 has had thread support in it's toolchain for some >>> time. >> >> be084204 did not add the AArch64 exception: it only made sure the >> comments about threads being needed would not be shown on AArch64, >> because gdb is never available on AArch64. >> >> The real commit who made gdb unavailable on AArch64 is >> 0e49733b306b353aad3a29a2c7a6faf25841ef0b. I believe at the time (April >> 2013), AArch64 was maybe not supported in the mainline gdb. My mistake, I got lost in the maze of GDB Config.in changes. >> >> Therefore, could you check when AArch64 support was added in mainline >> gdb ? We currently allow selecting either gdb 7.6 and 7.7 in Buildroot. > > AArch64 has been supported since gdb 7.6 (although 7.8 is much nicer > to use due to bug fixes). I'll resubmit with a re-worded commit message. -- Alex Benn?e