From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4996 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2009 02:10:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4987 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Dec 2009 02:10:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from web112506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (HELO web112506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (98.137.26.142) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:10:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 45472 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Dec 2009 02:10:12 -0000 Message-ID: <119734.20965.qm@web112506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Received: from [123.237.137.157] by web112506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:10:11 PST References: <816087.35180.qm@web112515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4B218B30.4010501@vmware.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:10:00 -0000 From: paawan oza Subject: Re: porting reversible on arm/mips To: Michael Snyder Cc: Hui Zhu , "gdb@sourceware.org" In-Reply-To: <4B218B30.4010501@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 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 To: paawan oza Cc: Hui Zhu ; "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.