From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31920 invoked by alias); 9 May 2002 14:35:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31912 invoked from network); 9 May 2002 14:35:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 May 2002 14:35:40 -0000 Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (unknown [172.16.14.211]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7C5B8013; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:35:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g49EZdx15358; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:35:39 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toenail.toronto.redhat.com: fche set sender to fche@redhat.com using -f To: Nick Clifton Cc: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Add support for RedBoot SWIs to ARM Simulator References: <200205091022.LAA16683@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 07:35:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 nickc wrote: > [...] > > We probably should have a way of configuring the simulator at > > run-time to allow emulation of a set of SWI values. [...] > > arm-elf-run -emul-swi={redboot|angel|demon|none} > > Hmm, well that could be done. Personally I would hold off doing it > until there is actually a situation where it is needed. [...] If one ever wants to run an OS on the simulator, then it must be able to *not* intercept any SWIs, since the OS would itself take care of the calls. In sid, we have a separate general configuration option for this kind of thing. - FChE