svn commit: r51146 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: bjk
Date: Thu Oct 26 00:35:49 2017
New Revision: 51146
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51146

Log:
  Add 2017Q3 gdb entry from jhb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml	Wed Oct 25 15:10:19 2017	(r51145)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml	Thu Oct 26 00:35:49 2017	(r51146)
@@ -254,4 +254,61 @@
       <task>Add support for the CCP (Crypto Co-Processor).</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>Updates to GDB</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>John</given>
+	  <common>Baldwin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>[email protected]</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Luca</given>
+	  <common>Pizzamiglio</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>[email protected]</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The port has been updated to GDB 8.0.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for &os;/aarch64 userland binaries has been committed
+	upstream.  These patches, along with support for debugging
+	&os;/aarch64 kernels, have been committed to the port.</p>
+
+      <p>Upstream patches adding improved support for &os;/arm userland
+	binaries are currently in review.  &os; 12 has recently grown
+	support for debugging VFP registers via <tt>ptrace()</tt> and
+	core dumps as part of this work.  Support for &os;/arm kernels
+	will be added to the port after the upstream patches are added
+	to the port.</p>
+
+       <p>Support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt> has been committed upstream.
+	 This uses the recently added NT_LWPINFO note to extract
+	 signal information from process cores.</p>
+
+       <p>Hangs that occured when GDB's <tt>kill</tt> command was used
+	 were fixed in &os; in r313992.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Figure out why the powerpc <tt>kgdb</tt> targets are not able to
+	unwind the stack past the initial frame.</task>
+
+      <task>Test support for sparc64 binaries and kernels.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement <tt>info proc</tt> commands.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement <tt>info os</tt> commands.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
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