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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] 4xx hardware watchpoint support
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> Kumar was just mentioning this post a few messages ago:
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-May/055745.html
> 
> That is a very interesting approach to handle all the differences
> between each processor's architecture, and a much cleaner way to set the
> facilities we want than the current interface we have. Do you know what
> is the status of this work? Did it move any further?

prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com was going to look into this.  I don't think there
has been much progress yet, but I hope we can get it started up again.


Thanks,
Roland