From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: PowerPC dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Replace NT_PRXFPREG with ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE #define
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:55:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18190.39864.4562.852292@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFC6881D-E917-4EC5-B19C-8CE04E040B06@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala writes:
> > #define ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE to be NT_PRXFPREG in all current users so
> > there's are no change in behaviour.
>
> Can we make this ELF_CORE_VECREG_TYPE or something that is so coupled
> to the x86 specific name?
How is "extended floating point registers" x86-specific?
ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE is a suitable name for something that's used in
conjunction with a function called elf_core_copy_task_xfpregs().
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-11 7:15 [patch 0/2] add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps markn
2007-10-11 7:15 ` [patch 1/2] Replace NT_PRXFPREG with ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE #define markn
2007-10-11 13:04 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-11 21:55 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2007-10-11 22:01 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-11 22:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-11 23:31 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-10-12 1:37 ` Mark Nelson
2007-10-12 2:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] [V2] " Mark Nelson
2007-10-12 2:35 ` Mark Nelson
2007-10-12 2:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] [V3] " Mark Nelson
2007-10-11 7:16 ` [patch 2/2] add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps markn
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