From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29670 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2005 13:30:08 -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 29626 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2005 13:30:03 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:30:03 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED001-00011j-HU; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:30:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Reynolds, Terry (Contractor-SIMTECH)" Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: ppc64 altivec registers? Message-ID: <20050907133001.GA3921@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Reynolds, Terry (Contractor-SIMTECH)" , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <0D21CBD1298D2C4790E2F2B86D96EC1935946E@amr-ex5.ds.amrdec.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0D21CBD1298D2C4790E2F2B86D96EC1935946E@amr-ex5.ds.amrdec.army.mil> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:26:57AM -0500, Reynolds, Terry (Contractor-SIMTECH) wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone here know how to fix the configuration of the kernel so that > gdb can find the altivec registers? The last time I heard from Andrew > Cagney he said : > > "At the time the code was written it was for a special altivec kernel / > build / config. Hence it was only enabled when built powerpc-*-*altivec. > Time has passed and that restriction no longer applies. I'll see about > removing it." Probably, the clean way to do this is through the "optional register set" interface we defined a couple of months ago. But I haven't had time to implement that yet. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC