From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] Query Red Boot's i386 CPU id
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bs7lp92j.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:24:20 +0300 (IDT)"
I haven't looked at the patch too closely yet but:
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > - a command to query the cpuid (info cpu).
> >
> > The actual CPU information is determined using a small file database
> > (installed in ..../share/gdb/i386-cpuid).
> >
> > Comments on how this was implemented, and what, if anything, could be
> > integrated into GDB, welcome.
>
> A few comments:
>
> (1) Why is this feature implemented for remote targets only? Why is
> the database of CPU ids installed only for embedded builds?
Seconded. I'm getting wild ideas of downloading the cpuid code to the
target, executing it there, and fetching the return value, and use
that to e.g. select whether it makes sense to do MMX or SSE :-).
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-29 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-28 15:20 Andrew Cagney
2002-08-29 0:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-29 16:01 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2002-08-29 16:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-30 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-30 6:52 ` Michal Ludvig
2002-08-29 17:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-30 13:08 ` Andrew Cagney
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