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From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
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Subject: Re: Hardware watchpoint support for MIPS?
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Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:
> 
>  David> GDB has had support for i386 debug registers on linux for
>  David> quite some time now.
> 
>  David> I was wondering if anyone has worked on similar support for
>  David> the hardware debug support available in some MIPS processors?
> 
> Yes, I have it on MIPS/sb1.
> 

Great!

Could you be more specific?  Like where are the kernel patches to expose 
the debugs registers to ptrace and the gdb patches to take advantage of 
them?

David Daney