From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable ptrace BookE interface for PowerPC server processors
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205221734.q4MHY0FQ014975@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337700251-9366-1-git-send-email-emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (message from Edjunior Barbosa Machado on Tue, 22 May 2012 12:24:11 -0300)
> From: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:24:11 -0300
>
> Hi,
>
> the ptrace BookE interface originally implemented only for embedded systems
> should be available for Power servers processors as well shortly [1].
> However, while this is not usable in upstream kernel, gdb should enforce
> the usage of the old ptrace mechanism (using PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG) on
> servers, even if BookE debug registers are reported as available.
But how are you going to handle this when that functionality does
become available?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 15:24 Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-05-22 17:34 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2012-05-25 3:50 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-05-29 18:54 ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-30 4:17 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-05-30 15:31 ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-31 20:56 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-05-31 22:09 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
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