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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:46:11 -0600
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/17] powerpc/e500: Don't make kgdb use
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BOn Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:07:12PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> The only systems which need the sparse PowerPC register map are the
> e500v1/e500v2.

Is this due to SPE?

> +/*
> + * On FreeScale e500v1 or e500v2 processors we need to skip some register
> + * sections, so just add up a list of what we need to store.
> + *
> + * On all other 32-bit PowerPC we can just pick the last needed register.
> + */

The "s" in "Freescale" is not capitalized, BTW.

-Scott