Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:00 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Kumar Gala wrote: >>> I'm wondering how we distinguish a core dump w/altivec state vs one >>> with SPE state. >> Sheer number of registers saved? >> >> Why not put the PVR in core dumps that'd make it all easier.. > > PVR wouldn't be very useful... What if you have altivec disabled ? Also > that would mean your gdb has to know about all new processors...
Is that such a big deal? :D Hypothetically it would be impossible to determine if you were running on a G5 with the FPU and AltiVec turned off or an e500 core with SPE, given the data saved. Is that a misfeature of GDB that we even have to worry about this, or some noble plus point of a unified ISA? You decide :) -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
