GDB Patches

[Steven Johnson]

What exactly do the GDB Patches give you over a standard GDB Distribution for
RTEMS?

What benefit do they give say over just configuring GDB for your processor
type and compiling it. Does it make GDB aware of the RTEMS OS constructs? (So
that you can put a breakpoint on a specific thread for example?) Or do they
just create an alias for rtems, so that you use target powerpc-rtems-eabi,
instead of powerpc-eabi? Or do they do something else?