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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [7.2][RFA] Mention new booke features in the NEWS file
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aaprf7lk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279306465.14577.46.camel@hactar>

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:54:25 -0300
> 
> I'd like to mention support for the new Linux ptrace interface on
> PowerPC which enables hardware debug features in BookE processors. Ok?

Yes.

> +* GDB now supports the extended ptrace interface for PowerPC which is
> +  available since Linux kernel version 2.6.34.  This automatically enables
> +  any hardware breakpoints and additional hardware watchpoints available in
> +  the processor.  The old ptrace interface exposes just one hardware
> +  watchpoint and no hardware breakpoint.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^
"breakpoints"

> +  This works on native GDB running on Linux kernels with the extended ptrace
                ^^
"in"

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-16 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-16 18:54 Thiago Jung Bauermann
2010-07-16 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-16 23:22   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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