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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@motorola.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <Kumar.Gala@motorola.com>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
	Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>, <gdb@sources.redhat.com>,
	<ezannoni@cygnus.com>, <fsirl@kernel.crashing.org>,
	<paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: AltiVec register ptrace support
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0112151141570.15248-100000@softail.somerset.sps.mot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1AB0A5.7040102@cygnus.com>

> The Linux/PPC kernel supports PEEK/POKE for fetching registers.  The
> proposed Kernel interface _consistently_ extends that interface using
> the exact same mechanims to obtain the altivec regiters.  All the
> required changes for this have been posted and have been demonstrated to
> work.
>
> Separate to that, it has been _proposed_ that the PPC ptrace() interface
> be changed so that get/set reg for all register classes be added
> (incomplete patch posted).  Isn't this separate to the problem at hand?

I think you are correct they are separate issues.  I posted both methods
so we could decide in which direction we wanted to go with the ptrace
interface.  I would like to see the single word at a time interface that
currectly exists be patched to support AltiVec so we can get debugger
support working.  I would like this done to the 2.4.x tree.

- kumar


  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-15 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.40.0112071443310.2903-300000@softail.somerset.sps.mot.com>
2001-12-07 14:24 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-12-07 14:34   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-14 10:53     ` Kumar Gala
2001-12-14 11:17       ` Jason R Thorpe
2001-12-14 18:08       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-12-15  9:44         ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2001-12-16 13:13         ` Paul Mackerras
2002-01-10 10:59           ` Kumar Gala

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