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

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sunday 04 January 2009 01:55:03 David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/40300; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost>
> Cc: port-alpha-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
>       netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: port-alpha/40300: 'target kvm' doesn't work on alpha
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:53:37 +0000
>
>  On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:55:00PM +0000, Manuel BOUYER wrote:
>   > >Synopsis:       'target kvm' doesn't work on alpha
>   >
>   >   'target kvm' doesn't exist in alpha--netbsd-gdb built from
>   >   build.sh. Quoting Martin Husemann:
>   > src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/arch/alpha/defs.mk:
>   >
>   >    G_LIBGDB_OBS does not contain bsd-kvm.o
>   >
>   > No idea why mknative did not pick it up or if it would work if you add
>   > it.
>   >
>   >   I tried adding bsd-kvm.o to G_LIBGDB_OBS but it seems it's not
>   > enough.
>
>  I had the displeasure of digging around in gdb config recently, so
>  while I'm far from an expert I think I know what's wrong.
>
>  It looks as if you need to add a call to bsd_kvm_add_target() to
>  _initialize_alphabsd_nat() at the bottom of
>  src/gnu/dist/gdb6/gdb/alphabsd-nat.c, akin to the one in
>  i386nbsd-nat.c.
>
>  To do it properly you also need to add bsd-kvm.o to NATDEPFILES in
>  src/gnu/dist/gdb6/gdb/config/alpha/nbsd.mh, and rerun mknative in all
>  its full glory.

This is correct. All the effort (not much really) is in getting  
alphabsd_supply_pcb right.

Nick