[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Adds general Freescale external debugger support

[Zang Roy-R61911]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schwingen [mailto:rincewind at discworld.dascon.de]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 19:18 PM
> To: Wolfgang Denk
> Cc: Zang Roy-R61911; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Kumar Gala; Wood Scott-B07421
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Adds general Freescale external debugger
> support
> 
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Michael Schwingen,
> >
> > In message <4D45EB1D.4020104 at discworld.dascon.de> you wrote:
> >
> >>> Do these need to be architecture specific? Probably not.
> >>>
> >> I do remember that we needed architecture-dependent debug options on a
> >> system I worked on in the past, because the preferred debug format was
> >> different on different platforms (all using gcc/binutils/gdb).
> >>
> >
> > Can you please be a bit more specific here?
> >
> I can only tell from memory, since this was some years ago - IIRC, we
> needed dwarf debug info on some platforms and stabs on others. I can't
> provide exact details, since the current toolchains work fine without
> such tweaking - I only wanted to point out that if you need to specify
> the exact debug format, then it might be platform-specific.
> 
> A simple "-g" should be fine in the common area.
Hi, Wolfgang
Considering the name, how about 
CONFIG_POWERPC_GNU_DEBUGGER?
thanks.
Roy