Re: overloading existing PTRACE_GET_DEBUGREG/PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG commands

2008-05-01 Thread Roland McGrath
For the short answer, no, I'd like not to extend PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG in the simple fashion. The direction I want to move with this is away from providing the hardware register formats directly as the user ABI. What I mean is resurrecting, finishing, and porting the "hw_breakpoint" work that Alan

overloading existing PTRACE_GET_DEBUGREG/PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG commands

2008-04-29 Thread Kumar Gala
It looks like when Anton added the PTRACE_GET_DEBUGREG/ PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG he envisioned future chips having more than one IABR/DABR. I'm wondering what the feeling is about using the commands for handling some of the sub-arch variants we have: e300 (603 style machine) - adds IABR2, DABR2