I re-read the link you posted earlier and this time it made more sense to me.
The kind of questions which are coming into my mind were being discussed.
So, off I went and downloaded the latest version of
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c hoping to see those very changes in them.
However it didn't match
Thanks James.
So it means that, the NIP that I am seeing in the printks is indeed correct.
Right? And this is due to the pipelining feature that is inherent in all
processors. So it basically means that after having executed the branch, the
NIP has already progressed to the next instruction it is
Hello.
I was reading the source code for the debug exception under powerpc. I saw
that BookE processors stop before (actually) taking a branch. Hence in order
to force it to take that branch and then stop, the source code for it had to
be "hacked' to (temporarily) enable single step until the bra
Hi Ben
There has been quite much confusion with my post disappearing from the new
nabble system to it having getting posted twice..Im sorry for all this.
Nevertheless, Id like to continue where we left off. Here I again repost my
response which initially disappeared and then showed up twice. Ive
