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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 08/31] ARC: Fundamental ARCH data-types/defines
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:12:47 +0000
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On Monday 12 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> But just to clarify, gdbserver will still use ARC specific
> ptrace(PEEKUSR) as opposed to regset interface. The switch to new gdb
> version is non trivial and I can't ask our active customers to go to
> some out-of-mainline tree until that gets fixed.

But your customers could use an out-of-tree kernel patch to put the
implementation of PEEKUSR back into their kernels, right?

Over time, they could just drop that patch once they move to a
newer gdb version.

	Arnd