Hi Michael,
Yes, your patch seems a more complete solution. The idea of "d1", "d2",
"d4", and "d8" commands is more what I needed and makes more sense to
someone hitting xmon "cold". I'll work on getting your patch submitted.
Question on these sorts of patches (PPC only), do we submit initially to
upstream, or here on this (PPC) mailing list? It would be nice to get
this into the distros as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Doug
On 02/03/2017 04:31 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
Douglas Miller <dougm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
I'm referring to the three commands listed in the help:
d dump bytes
df dump float values
dd dump double values
As it turns out, all three of these commands do exactly the same thing,
and it's certainly not what I'd expect based on experience with other
debuggers. Maybe the original intent was only to simply output bytes of
memory, but to me the help implies otherwise and certainly something
more is needed.
OK. I don't think df/dd actually exist in the code, so I think the help
is just out of date, by about 20 years.
'd' definitely works as intended and does what the help says as far as
I'm concerned. The output is pretty similar to hexdump -C for example.
Also xmon isn't a debugger it's a crash handler :)
I'll take a look at Balbir's patch and see if I can help move it along.
Actually take a look at mine instead.
cheers
