On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 11:37:24AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > [ccing Andreas in case he wants to review the QOM aspects of this, > > though they're fairly straightforward I think.] > > > > On 29 August 2014 14:52, Jens Freimann <jf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > From: David Hildenbrand <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > > > This patch provides the name of the architecture in the target.xml if > > > available. > > > > > > This allows the remote gdb to detect the target architecture on its own - > > > so > > > there is no need to specify it manually (e.g. if gdb is started without a > > > binary) using "set arch *arch_name*". > > > > This is neat; I didn't realise gdb let you do this. > > > > > The name of the architecture has been added to all archs that provide a > > > target.xml (by supplying a gdb_core_xml_file) and have a unique > > > architecture > > > name in gdb's feature xml files. > > > > What about 32-bit ARM? You set the architecture name for AArch64 > > but not the 32 bit case. > > > > Well, my point was to not break anything :) > > On my way through the possible architecture names > (binutils-gdb/gdb/features/*.xml), I wasn't able to come up with the right > name > for arm 32 bit (arm-core.xml) - they don't specify any. This patch therefore > adapts to the xml files from gdb. > > The architecture should be known at the same point when specifying the xml > file. > So if anyone can come up with the proper arm name in the future (or even some > kind of detection algorithm), it can simply be set in target-arm/cpu.c (after > "arm-core.xml").
Hi, I've got some similar patches in my tree. I used the following: commit 26932a453da466d111b67c37b93dec71fb3ae111 Author: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> Date: Wed Aug 20 19:22:10 2014 +1000 gdbstub: Emit the CPUs GDB architecture if available Allows GDB to autodetect the architecture. Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> diff --git a/gdbstub.c b/gdbstub.c index 7f82186..5b62c50 100644 --- a/gdbstub.c +++ b/gdbstub.c @@ -604,6 +604,11 @@ static const char *get_feature_xml(const char *p, const char **newp, pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), r->xml); pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), "\"/>"); } + if (cc->gdb_arch) { + pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), "<architecture>"); + pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), cc->gdb_arch); + pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), "</architecture>"); + } pstrcat(target_xml, sizeof(target_xml), "</target>"); } return target_xml; commit a0b166c59491b154c05b963649f561c1e48aa706 Author: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> Date: Wed Aug 20 19:21:28 2014 +1000 target-arm: Provide GDB arch names Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> diff --git a/target-arm/cpu.c b/target-arm/cpu.c index b726b6a..d1704f5 100644 --- a/target-arm/cpu.c +++ b/target-arm/cpu.c @@ -1163,6 +1163,7 @@ static void arm_cpu_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) cc->get_phys_page_debug = arm_cpu_get_phys_page_debug; cc->vmsd = &vmstate_arm_cpu; #endif + cc->gdb_arch = "arm"; cc->gdb_num_core_regs = 26; cc->gdb_core_xml_file = "arm-core.xml"; } diff --git a/target-arm/cpu64.c b/target-arm/cpu64.c index fc9c991..c099d13 100644 --- a/target-arm/cpu64.c +++ b/target-arm/cpu64.c @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static void aarch64_cpu_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) cc->gdb_write_register = aarch64_cpu_gdb_write_register; cc->gdb_num_core_regs = 34; cc->gdb_core_xml_file = "aarch64-core.xml"; + cc->gdb_arch = "aarch64"; } static void aarch64_cpu_register(const ARMCPUInfo *info) commit 0aca15f7829e6e8a94639ddd75bcfdfd3b034d2e Author: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> Date: Wed Aug 20 19:20:35 2014 +1000 qom/cpu: Add a gdb_arch field to the CPUClass Used to optionally set the GDB architecture of the CPU. Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> diff --git a/include/qom/cpu.h b/include/qom/cpu.h index 4d0908b..46b72e7 100644 --- a/include/qom/cpu.h +++ b/include/qom/cpu.h @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ typedef struct CPUClass { void *opaque); const struct VMStateDescription *vmsd; + const char *gdb_arch; int gdb_num_core_regs; const char *gdb_core_xml_file; } CPUClass; commit eaa8bac08e300c9516d04c3425c3794a1bd893b8 Author: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> Date: Wed Aug 20 11:26:52 2014 +1000 configure: gdbstub: Include ARM xml descritions in AArch64 builds Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@xilinx.com> diff --git a/configure b/configure index fce5801..3a95948 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -4976,7 +4976,9 @@ case "$target_name" in aarch64) TARGET_BASE_ARCH=arm bflt="yes" - gdb_xml_files="aarch64-core.xml aarch64-fpu.xml" + arm_gdb_xml_files="arm-core.xml arm-vfp.xml arm-vfp3.xml arm-neon.xml" + gdb_xml_files="aarch64-core.xml aarch64-fpu.xml $arm_gdb_xml_files" + echo $gdb_xml_files ;; cris) ;;