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Re: [7.2][RFA] Mention new booke features in the NEWS file
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:19:03 +0300
- Subject: Re: [7.2][RFA] Mention new booke features in the NEWS file
- References: <1279306465.14577.46.camel@hactar>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:54:25 -0300
>
> I'd like to mention support for the new Linux ptrace interface on
> PowerPC which enables hardware debug features in BookE processors. Ok?
Yes.
> +* GDB now supports the extended ptrace interface for PowerPC which is
> + available since Linux kernel version 2.6.34. This automatically enables
> + any hardware breakpoints and additional hardware watchpoints available in
> + the processor. The old ptrace interface exposes just one hardware
> + watchpoint and no hardware breakpoint.
^^^^^^^^^^
"breakpoints"
> + This works on native GDB running on Linux kernels with the extended ptrace
^^
"in"
Thanks.