Re: [PATCH for-8.0] target/arm: Don't advertise aarch64-pauth.xml to gdb

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> Unfortunately a bug in older versions of gdb means that they will
> crash if QEMU sends them the aarch64-pauth.xml.  This bug is fixed in
> gdb commit 1ba3a3222039eb25, and there are plans to backport that to
> affected gdb release branches, but since the bug affects gdb 9
> through 12 it is very widely deployed (for instance by distros).
>
> It is not currently clear what the best way to deal with this is; it
> has been proposed to define a new XML feature name that old gdb will
> ignore but newer gdb can handle.  Since QEMU's 8.0 release is
> imminent and at least one of our CI runners is now falling over this,
> disable the pauth XML for the moment.  We can follow up with a more
> considered fix either in time for 8.0 or else for the 8.1 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Queued to pr/170323-for-8.0-1, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro