On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 17:23, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@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.mayd...@linaro.org> > > Queued to pr/170323-for-8.0-1, thanks.
I'll take this via target-arm.next, so please unqueue this one. -- PMM
