From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103930 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2015 19:55:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 103918 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jun 2015 19:55:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.gentoo.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:55:33 +0000 Received: from vapier (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59A6A3408AB; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:55:00 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gdb@sourceware.org Cc: bje@gnu.org, dje@google.com, nickc@redhat.com Subject: what is the "VPU" (in igen/cgen/sim) ? Message-ID: <20150623195531.GJ17734@vapier> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org, bje@gnu.org, dje@google.com, nickc@redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m" Content-Disposition: inline X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-06/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 736 the simulator had VPU tracing support proposed here: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2001-02/msg00267.html and committed here: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=3Dbinutils-gdb.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3D01816c= d804ec526927f53f0e408dae8c6ea269f2 but nowhere can i seem to find a description of what the "VPU" actually is. the references to cgen doesn't lead anywhere as a grep of the cgen tree doe= sn't=20 match anything. the only user in the sim tree is msp430, and it uses it for generic cpu register tracing. i would guess that it means "video processin= g=20 unit" as Google would lead me to believe, but that doesn't make sense in the cgen/sim context. same for "virtual processing unit". can anyone shed some light on this ? -mike --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVibmzAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB5Q8P/in783vFUvlVaYJW6TMk1W0a Ji7k+epGUtUM7qyGY1FOQrS5RRHpOOU3puVgGZkBcn1mLp1SpOOFioJfAlMsOhcR SMOd7/qSyP9hPcCFTSzjaY/6DIBwsqxH1Gd8oTrHfR0R7Wks0E8j9xa0yZ1edVaF hZetDoOgCwrcIKUfa1caTS6vszUGA+nFzsCQkS68VZ/lTZUOa7jIP6XQNI9p0Yqv cPcptfToIyuCWCU3/sB+FYrGybar7hPuOuqcvT4v5xeeKBhpnGO/w9x98SJ/IRHr bEHO6RX9xOg/rOQcond2BMbkLEPDTJ7Dg/UXZlPsMmdrNTzH0IEGacQq0nOu1S7h MBGMIp7dEJbujRHu5mz6Upz9ASo67zv0EXfKH9JtEnuEzxUKsc6fOreYAiTj6h2t Bt2Z15ZwUMEzsE8T24Ux0969gGPUy9GhEZjcTZlB5e06VOarBFaBY3DoFfTMlrKZ bmTvd/3KKEP2mgPdFJH8salyk+Nv7REZFd9PtoHp3BCjInkIwNSIUFsrNkiLh91w iCREA81LqIWkREMUCyv5Pe2yxBuO5So2Ii3GdPK8BcRm5Q7lsPlRMW7EdqvLGnvU 0WXJwmVLVRVeoobe8nnLyPSu7pbD4sWceoa1GWSuiNmkoUKRbJ75/LVbjuDFN+aO fJ92g+eloqgFvC3u/YX7 =7kXn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m--