From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:46:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:47642 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S3465570AbVI3Kmf (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:42:35 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8UAgLui005536; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:42:27 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j8U05onK004667; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:05:50 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:05:50 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: RFC: Revise n32 ptrace interface Message-ID: <20050930000550.GE3983@linux-mips.org> References: <20050922182601.GA10829@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050922182601.GA10829@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9089 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:26:01PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 1. We need to get at the 64-bit registers. I considered a number of > different approaches for this and decided to just implement a 64-bit > PTRACE_GETREGS instead of messing with PTRACE_PEEKUSR. It's much simpler > this way. I didn't add one for the DSP registers; that can be handled > separately when someone's working on debug support for them... I quite deliberately did omit DSP support from 64-bit ptrace(2); there is currently no MIPS64 processor with DSP support that I know of. Ralf