On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Dan Malek wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >> Doh my bad. Attached it is. >> >> >> <8xx_gdb.diff> > > Well, this probably works for you but have you > considered how it affects others? > > I'm not going to get into the -ggdb flags discussion, > since I know we've had that in the past. Why is > this needed and should it be done for everyone? > > Your update of MSR_KERNEL will work for you, > but won't work on anything that isn't a Book E processor. > You can't make this a generic update to all processors. > It will fail on everything that really wants to use the > BDI_SWITCH configuration option as it was intended. > The DE in Book E conflicts with BE in traditional PPC.
We should but this in asm-ppc/reg_booke.h since book-e has its own MSR_* defines. > This also doesn't do anything to address my real concern, > we shouldn't have to create a special kernel configuration > just to attach a debugger ......... I'm not 100% sure this is even possible on some of the book-e variants. - kumar
