From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Extend gdb remote protocol for AVX
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080918183402.GA22646@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080918172728.GA12703@lucon.org>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:27:28AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> b. If remote target supports AVX:
> i. Don't send xmlarch.
> ii. Replace 128bit xmm registers with 256bit ymm registers in
> the g/G packet.
> iii. Gdb will auto-detect SSE unit on remote target, based on the
> the g/G packet size.
Just a general note: I would much prefer you use the XML mechanism for
this, either by an architecture name or a property or an explicit
register description, than add more guesses to the g/G packet checks;
they're a heuristic for existing remote targets.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-18 17:28 H.J. Lu
2008-09-18 17:51 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-18 18:20 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-18 18:31 ` H.J. Lu
2008-09-18 18:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-09-18 19:03 ` H.J. Lu
2008-09-18 19:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-18 20:13 ` H.J. Lu
2008-09-18 20:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-02 10:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-02 14:16 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-04 20:52 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-04 22:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-05 14:37 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-06 21:35 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-07 19:22 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-12 13:39 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-12 22:18 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-28 14:11 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-28 14:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-28 17:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-29 7:41 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-29 16:45 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-10-29 2:00 ` H.J. Lu
2008-10-29 2:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-04 22:22 ` H.J. Lu
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