On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:47:38AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:51:49AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:33:55AM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > > >- The patch is currently implemented only for PPC64 architecture. Other > > > architectures (especially Book-E implementations are expected to > > > happen in due course). > > > > Does this mean you will work on transitioning Book-E implementations, or > > that > > you expect the Book-E maintainers to? I'm just curious. The code as > > written > > relies heavily on the DABR/MSR setup that ppc64 has and Book-E unfortunately > > doesn't follow that at all. > > And since there will eventually be 64-bit book E chips, we need to use > something more specific than CONFIG_PPC64 in the #ifdef (easier now than > figuring out which ones are breakpoint-related later). > > -Scott
Sure. I will be glad to receive & incorporate suggestions in this regard from PowerPC experts (or will 64-bit Book-E implementations be called by a different name altogether?) Thanks, K.Prasad _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
