[PATCH 0/4] Support the BookE hardware debug features

[PATCH 0/4] Support the BookE hardware debug features

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

Hi,

This patch series is a reworked version of Sérgio's original submission of 
the PC476 support patches. Each patch compiles when applied, provided the 
previous ones in the series are applied too.

The code has the following improvements:

- it now compiles on machines with older kernel headers (though I had
  to include the whole new ptrace.h contents into ppc-linux-nat.c)
- has a few bugfixes that we noticed later.
- incorporates some changes from Eli's comments. Not all of them are
  addressed yet, unfortunately. They will, but I wanted to have something
  out soon.

BTW, the thread for the kernel part of the new ptrace interface for
BookE support:

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-December/078805.html

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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Support the BookE hardware debug features

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:30:51 -0200
> Cc: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Matt Tyrlik <tyrlik@us.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch series is a reworked version of Sérgio's original submission of 
> the PC476 support patches. Each patch compiles when applied, provided the 
> previous ones in the series are applied too.

Thanks.

> The code has the following improvements:
> 
> - it now compiles on machines with older kernel headers (though I had
>   to include the whole new ptrace.h contents into ppc-linux-nat.c)
> - has a few bugfixes that we noticed later.
> - incorporates some changes from Eli's comments. Not all of them are
>   addressed yet, unfortunately. They will, but I wanted to have something
>   out soon.

What's the decision regarding the new *-range commands?  I see they
are still being introduced.  We have 1 voice against that and one in
favor.  If you are not convinced by what I wrote against them, I'd
like to hear more opinions before we decide.

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Support the BookE hardware debug features

[Joel Brobecker]

> What's the decision regarding the new *-range commands?  I see they
> are still being introduced.  We have 1 voice against that and one in
> favor.  If you are not convinced by what I wrote against them, I'd
> like to hear more opinions before we decide.

Just in case you are referring to my answer as in favor, I should
say that I'm more like 50-50, or only slightly in favor. I am not
against the syntax you suggested provided that it does not complicate
the implementation too much.

-- 
Joel