Re: New toolchain for Linux/mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > I've actually spent this week porting the gdb CVS head to MIPS; I've
> > got it almost entirely working now.  There's one problem with SIGTRAP
> 
>  Make sure your kernel is flushing the icache right. 

Hmm, thanks, I'll check.  I don't think that's it, though.

> > that I haven't quite figured out yet, and thread attach isn't quite
> > working, and there's a kernel bug I've been repeatedly triggering that
> > I think I just fixed.  I anticipate it all being done in a couple of
> > days - I'll post here and on the GDB list when I have it in slightly
> > better shape.
> 
>  Great!  Did you do you work from scratch -- hopefully not?

Nope.  It's based mostly on the same 4.17 patch from David Miller, and
some bits from Ralf, all marked as assigned to the FSF (though I'm not
sure if that ever actually happened); I'll straighten out copyright
once I've got the whole thing done.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software                              Debian Security Team