From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13503 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2004 22:27:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13456 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 22:27:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 22:27:33 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i62MRXe1024894 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:27:33 -0400 Received: from zenia.home.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i62MRV027928; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:27:32 -0400 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Delay the branch for E500 native support From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 Would it be possible to delay the GDB 6.2 branch for another week, until Fri, July 9th? It would be really nice for 6.2 to contain full, unqualified native PowerPC E500 Linux support. We're really close. The bulk of it is committed and working. The two missing pieces are that you can't access the E500's vector registers in multi-threaded programs, and you can't refer to variables located in vector registers, because of GCC's use of DW_OP_piece. I've posted patches to address the first problem, which are being discussed for revision, and I'm working on patches for the second issue, revised as discussed in the thread at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-05/msg00425.html I'm happy to put in time over the U.S. holiday weekend, and do what it takes next week to get it all posted for further review by midweek. If maintainers can give me detailed instructions on how they want the patches revised, I'll be happy to comply. I'd just really like to be able to say, in the GDB 6.2 NEWS: "Added support for native PowerPC E500 Linux", without qualifications.