On 05 Aug 2003 18:33:54 +0200, Detlev Zundel dzu@denx.de writes:
If anyone wants to keep the file then please speak up, otherwise I'd like to ask Wolfgang to remove it so there is one less obstacle for new users of U-Boot.
I was responsible for the gdb directory being there - long time ago early in the ppcboot days - when the board I was using had no ethernet and no flash (really!). I would burn ppcboot into an EPROM, then use gdb to download a linux kernel over the serial line and debug it the same way if it crashed (with kgdb). Wasn't too bad at 230400 baud. But I stopped using these tools many years ago.
astest was just a little hack that printed some info I needed - it could definitely go. In fact, the whole gdb directory could probably go, although I suppose it might be useful to someone/somewhere/sometime. Cheers! Murray...