From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luck, Tony" Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:05:38 +0000 Subject: RE: [RFE] Add stacked registers to SAL records (resend) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Bjorn Helgaas > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:29 AM > To: Keith Owens; linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [RFE] Add stacked registers to SAL records (resend) > > > On Thursday 04 December 2003 5:59 pm, Keith Owens wrote: > > SAL error records contain most registers in > sal_processor_static_info, > > but not the stacked registers. What is the process for > adding another > > GUID to the SAL specification to contain the stacked registers? > > I've always been puzzled about why the stacked registers aren't > available after an INIT, so this proposal sounds incredibly useful > to me. Much of the useful information, i.e., function arguments, > is in the stacked registers and hence currently unavailable. > > As for getting it added to the spec, I don't really know the process. > But I'll forward this to our people who deal with the spec. I think > it would help to have an actual draft of a proposal. > > Tony Luck might have a good Intel contact, too. I'm looking around for the right person to pass this to. -Tony