We suffer at least one round trip ACK latency every command / packet that
GDB has to send and receive, and the response format for 'info threads'
supports packing many threads IDs into a single packet, so do so.
Adds and uses a new API, gdb_txbuf_has_capacity(), which checks for a
certain number of bytes available in the outgoing txbuf.
On an example amd64 VM, the number of RTTs to transmit this list is reduced
by a factor of 110x. This is especially beneficial with recent GDB, which
seems to request the list at least twice during attach.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
backend improves over the old GDB support in the following ways:
o Unified implementation with minimal MD code.
o A simple interface for devices to register themselves as debug
ports, ala consoles.
o Compression by using run-length encoding.
o Implements GDB threading support.
