Re: porting reversible on arm/mips

[paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>]

My target may be arm/mips.
but some of the common hurdles are following.

1) getting virtual machine which has capability gives me arm processor

2) getting the arm linux ISO. 

Can somebody give me some pointers regarding above ?

Regards,.
Oza.


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>; "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 5:28:40 AM
Subject: Re: porting reversible on arm/mips

paawan oza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there are pending tasks as mentioned in
> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ReverseDebug
> 
> I would like take one of the archs and port reversible on it.
> 
> If I correctly understand the task.
> 
> ->  mips/arm architecture involves, complete writing to arm/mips instruction set and parsing of the same.
> 
> -> I assume that there is no basic framework done for mips/arm, such as function call recording, instruction parsing etc, everything has to be written from beginning.
> 
> Let me know If my understanding is correct of the current state of code.

I think Hui has already done some work for Mips record/replay.
Maybe you and he could work together on that?

If you want to work on Arm, as far as I know, you would have
that field all to yourself.