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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 12:50:00 -0000
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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On Fri, 25 May 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  In principle on bare iron it should be doable, but the problem is, IIRC, 
> the state of cp0.cause.bd is not propagated under Linux to userland in any 
> way.  And at the moment I'm not sure how this would affect EJTAG debugging 
> either.

 FYI, I have now checked Linux and it should be fine -- must have been my
bad memory.  EJTAG has provisions for handling this correctly
(cp0.debug.dbd), but I'm not sure if associated software gets it right.

  Maciej