From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Hardware watchpoint support for MIPS?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206034450.6643.187.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080320170105.GB25765@caradoc.them.org>
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:01 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:22:55AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> > GDB has had support for i386 debug registers on linux for quite some time
> > now.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has worked on similar support for the hardware
> > debug support available in some MIPS processors?
>
> The issue's not GDB support, but kernel support. I've seen several
> proposals to expose watchpoint registers over ptrace on MIPS, but so
> far none of them have merged. The usual place they bog down is how to
> explain to GDB what capabilities are available; x86 has it easy,
> there's basically only one type.
That's a problem in Power as well... What's currently there is
simplistic and hardly adequate.
--
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 17:00 David Daney
2008-03-20 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-20 17:58 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2008-03-20 17:34 ` Paul Koning
2008-03-20 18:07 ` David Daney
[not found] ` <18402.42671.693454.471284@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2008-03-20 20:57 ` David Daney
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