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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Support target specific qSupported
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203135848.GA27938@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100203040339.GA24984@lucon.org>

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 08:03:39PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Intel AVX has 256bit YMM registers. XMM registers from SSE are the
> aliases of the lower 128bit YMM registers. gdbserver on AVX machine
> may use 256bit vector registers, instead of 128bit vector registers,
> in the g/G packet.  When gdb talks to gdbserver, they need to negotiate
> to find out the maxium common register size supported by both gdb and
> gdbserver. I added `x86:xstate=BYTES:xcr0=VALUE' to qSupported:

Have you seen the Target Descriptions chapter in the manual?  This is
exactly what it was designed to do.

You'll need a new gdb to talk to the new gdbserver (older ones will
give a warning on connect), but that's generally acceptable.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03  4:03 H.J. Lu
2010-02-03  7:04 ` Hui Zhu
2010-02-03 13:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-02-03 14:05   ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 14:15     ` Tristan Gingold
2010-02-03 14:26       ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 14:22     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-03 14:34       ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 14:46         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-03 15:08           ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 15:31             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]             ` <20100203152350.GA1580@caradoc.them.org>
2010-02-03 16:44               ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 17:57                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-03 18:31                   ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 18:59             ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 19:03               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-03 19:06                 ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-03 19:17                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-03 19:09                 ` Mark Kettenis

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