From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: Request for 8.2, SVE cores && adding SVE to NEWS file etc
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180821131646.GB24065@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D0DD287-65D9-4D1B-A9EE-67E202B2FF6A@arm.com>
> Thereâs a simple enough change to the args of a common function. And then everything
> else is self contained. Iâd break it down into:
>
> dbd534fee4 5 days ago Alan Hayward Rename size in get_core_register_sectio
> - Rename of single variable in common function. Obvious change, no risk.
>
> a616bb9450 2 days ago Alan Hayward Split size in regset section iterators
> - Mechanical change across every tdep file (adds a new third arg, which is a
> duplicate of the second arg). Very minor risk on any target that there might
> be a copy/paste error that hasn't been spotted (just needs a triple check of
> the diff again when merging). Minor risk that I've missed a tdep file that
> doesn't get built into a target-all build (causing a build error which Iâd
> hope would have been spotted by now).
>
> b7fd65b9dc 2 days ago Alan Hayward Detect SVE when reading aarch64 core files
> 0c76e06d5c 2 days ago Alan Hayward Parse SVE registers in aarch64 core file reading/writing
> - Limited to reading/writing Aarch64 (SVE and non-SVE) Linux cores on either
> a Aarch64 Linux build or target-all build. SVE code is seperated from
> standard aarch64 code. So to go wrong on non-SVE, the code would first
> have to incorrectly detect the presence of SVE.
I took a look at the patches, and I agree they look sufficiently
self-contained that they should be OK for inclusion in 8.2. Give
Pedro a few days to comment as well, just in case, but otherwise,
it is OK for me to backport.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-21 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-15 9:31 Alan Hayward
2018-08-16 16:17 ` Pedro Alves
2018-08-17 9:26 ` Alan Hayward
2018-08-21 13:16 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2018-08-21 14:34 ` Pedro Alves
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