gdb patches to RBS

[Chris Johns]

On 14/11/2014 9:12 am, Jiri Gaisler wrote:
>
> What is the procedure to add gdb patches to RBS?
>

Patches are first accepted by the RTEMS Project as the definition of the 
tools belongs to the project and tool packagers, ie the RSB, need to 
adopt that definition to get a project tick. Patches should be posted 
upstream where possible and then referenced from there. If the upstream 
does not have a suitable method to reference patches we can add them to 
the rtems-tools.git repo under the tools directory. There are specific 
cases such as the openrisc tools where a specific github instance is 
referenced as we have a positive undertaking from that community the 
tools are being merged upstream. Examples of upstream patch referencing 
is qemu and patchworks.

I do not see a patch management system for gdb. There was talk back in 
April of this year of gdb using patchworks and then something else 
however it seems to have died out.

> I have a few patches that fixes the erc32 simulator and also
> add support for leon2 and leon3. This would allow us to drop
> the sis bsp, and also to test the leon2 and leon3 bsp's with
> sis.

Excellent. I suggest you provide git patches for the rtems-tools.git 
repo to add the patches and then provide RSB patches for the sparc gdb 
build to use them. There are specific sparc patches already present 
which need updating as they are currently stopping us moving off gdb-7.7.

Chris