From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4076 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2009 16:15:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 4065 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Dec 2009 16:15:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com (HELO e9.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:15:42 +0000 Received: from d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (d01relay07.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.147]) by e9.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nBHG8xwG002146 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:08:59 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id nBHGFcrg1953856 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:15:38 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id nBHGFbw9018937 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:38 -0200 Received: from miki.localnet ([9.8.8.61]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id nBHGFT6r017758 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:37 -0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9rgio_Durigan_J=FAnior?= To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support the new PPC476 processor Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:15:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.30.4; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Thiago Jung Bauermann , Luis Machado , Matt Tyrlik References: <200912161847.17162.sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20091217044212.GB2788@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20091217044212.GB2788@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200912171415.25777.sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00233.txt.bz2 Hi Joel, On Thursday 17 December 2009, Joel Brobecker wrote: > I'm very excited to see hardware-accelerated condition evaluation. > I'll take a look at the patches for sure. Thanks! > Regarding the need for very recent kernel headers, it might be an issue. > I assume the missing pieces are for the special kinds of watchpoints and > breakpoints. Is there a way to disable just this code if the kernel > is not recent enough? Yeah, we will certainly want to disable this special code if the kernel doesn't support the feature. We will post a patch for it ASAP, but it shouldn't change anything important on the current version of the patch, so if you want to start reviewing it, be my guest :-). Thank you, -- Sérgio Durigan Júnior Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - LTC IBM Brazil