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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 14:33:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add userspace debug stub support
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@freescale.com>, "kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@freescale.com>, "tiejun.chen@windriver.com" <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

On 05/11/2013 08:18:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 11.05.2013 um 12:24 schrieb Bhushan Bharat-R65777  
> <R65777@freescale.com>:
> > We do not want to keep the delayed debug events as they does not  
> carry much value. Example: taking h/w breakpoint at some other  
> execution address.
> 
> That's for the guest to decide, no?

No more so than with the various other things that don't get fully  
emulated.

> If the guest wants to poll debug events rather than receive  
> interrupts, we should enable it to do so.

Someone who cares can enable it to do so.  Note that the value of  
deferred debug events is so low that it got ripped out of the hardware  
starting with e6500.  Didn't we discuss this a while back?

-Scott