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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:34:33 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r48581 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Message-ID:  <201604122134.u3CLYXoK053402@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: wblock
Date: Tue Apr 12 21:34:32 2016
New Revision: 48581
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48581

Log:
  Add GDB report from John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 21:29:31 2016	(r48580)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 21:34:32 2016	(r48581)
@@ -562,4 +562,60 @@
       </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>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The new thread target that directly uses <tt>ptrace(2)</tt>
+	was committed upstream and included in GDB 7.11.  The port was
+	also updated to GDB 7.11.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <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 gdb for both userland and kgdb.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for catching system calls.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for $_siginfo.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for ELF auxv data via 'info auxv'.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Implement 'info os' commands.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Implement gdbserver for freebsd.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>



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