Generic GDB remote support for non-cortexM targes

[duaneellissd]

Environment

I am a developer that uses RISCV - I have also used GDB on Linux with numerous front ends. they all work, and know how to work automatically with just about all CPUs that GDB and/or the GNU tool chain supports via the "-mi" option on GDB.

HOWEVER - I found that RISCV was not supported by VSCODE
and instead VSCODE seemed to be "hard coded" for exactly CortexM series microcontrollers only.

And - when I reported this issue the basic response (paraphraed) at the time was: "It is not important enough for us to fix or resolve"

SEE: #11051

So my question today is this: What CPUs does VS Code support other then CortexM series.
Does it support any ESP32 chips? Does it support PIC32 - MIPS chips?

I ask this because the traditional GDB front ends all have been able to adapt to these out of the box.
I suspect VSCODE is hard coded to just CortexM series parts.

And Un-Hard coding is not interesting.

Bug Summary and Steps to Reproduce

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Debugger Configurations

see previous issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/11051

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