svn commit: r47971 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jan 9 18:51:48 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jan  9 18:51:47 2016
New Revision: 47971
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47971

Log:
  Add gdb report from jhb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 18:47:09 2016	(r47970)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 18:51:47 2016	(r47971)
@@ -418,4 +418,63 @@
 	version comes out.)</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>Updates to GDB</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>John</given>
+	  <common>Baldwin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jhb at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://github.com/bsdjhb/gdb/tree/FreeBSD-threads">New 1:1-only thread target for &os;</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The KGDB option is now on by default in the devel/gdb
+	port.</p>
+
+      <p>The changes to support cross-debugging of crashdumps in
+	libkvm were committed to HEAD in r291406.</p>
+
+      <p>A new thread target for &os; that is suitable for merging
+	upstream has been written and lightly tested.  However, it is not
+	yet available as an option in the port.  This thread target uses
+	<tt>ptrace(2)</tt> directly rather than <tt>libthread_db</tt> and
+	as such supports threads on all ABIs (such as &os;/i386 binaries
+	on &os;/amd64 and possibly Linux binaries, though that is not yet
+	tested).  It also requires less-invasive changes in the MD targets
+	in GDB compared to the <tt>libthread_db</tt>-based target.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Add a port option for the new 1:1-only thread target.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Test the new 1:1-only thread target.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Figure out why the powerpc kgdb targets are not able to
+	  unwind the stack past the initial frame.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for more platforms (arm, mips, aarch64) to
+	  upstream <tt>gdb</tt> for both userland and <tt>kgdb</tt>.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
