Re: port-alpha/40300: 'target kvm' doesn't work on alpha

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/40300; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, toolchain-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-alpha/40300: 'target kvm' doesn't work on alpha
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:06:15 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
  > > > actually, i realised that there are two problems:
  > > > 
  > > >         - alpha has no native "target kvm"
  > > > 
  > > >         - cross netbsd-gdb has no "target kvm"
  > > > 
  > > > the former is fairly easy to fix, and the fixes have been discussed
  > > > already, but the latter i'm not sure about at all.
  > >  
  > >  Right, but I don't think this PR is about the latter. (Manuel? Do you
  > >  need it to work in a cross-gdb?)
  > 
  > Actually yes, it is what I was trying to do. The most powerfull boxes at
  > work are running linux so it's where I build NetBSD bits, including
  > kernels ...
 
 I suspect this is going to be difficult, because gdb thinks it's a
 host thing, not a target thing.
 
 You could try adding it to the .mh and *-nat.c files corresponding to
 the Linux build host you're using and see what happens, but that's not
 very likely to work.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost