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authorDru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org>2016-07-01 17:52:29 +0000
committerDru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org>2016-07-01 17:52:29 +0000
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Add GDB status report submitted by jhb@FreeBSD.org.
While here, add a line between authors. Reviewed by: wblock@ixsystems.com Sponsored by: iXsystems
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</name>
<email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>Ed</given>
@@ -451,4 +452,53 @@
FreeBSD.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='bin'>
+ <title>Updates to GDB</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>John</given>
+ <common>Baldwin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Luca</given>
+ <common>Pizzamiglio</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>luca.pizzamiglio@gmail.com</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The port has been updated to GDB 7.11.1.</p>
+
+ <p>Support for system call catchpoints has been committed
+ upstream. Support for examining ELF auxiliary vector data via
+ <tt>info auxv</tt> has been committed upstream. Both features
+ will be included in GDB 7.12.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>Figure out why the <tt>powerpc kgdb</tt> targets are not
+ able to unwind the stack past the initial frame.</task>
+
+ <task>Add support for more platforms, such as <tt>arm</tt>,
+ <tt>mips</tt>, and <tt>aarch64</tt>, to upstream gdb for both
+ userland and kgdb.</task>
+
+ <task>Add support for debugging <tt>powerpc</tt> vector
+ registers.</task>
+
+ <task>Add support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt>.</task>
+
+ <task>Implement <tt>info proc</tt> commands.</task>
+
+ <task>Implement <tt>info os</tt> commands.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>