Re: [PATCH v2 for-6.2] target/arm: Advertise MVE to gdb when present

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 11/1/21 12:08 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Cortex-M CPUs with MVE should advertise this fact to gdb, using the
> org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-mve XML feature, which defines the VPR
> register.  Presence of this feature also tells gdb to create
> pseudo-registers Q0..Q7, so we do not need to tell gdb about them
> separately.
> 
> Note that unless you have a very recent GDB that includes this fix:
> http://patches-tcwg.linaro.org/patch/58133/  gdb will mis-print the
> individual fields of the VPR register as zero (but showing the whole
> thing as hex, eg with "print /x $vpr" will give the correct value).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell<peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson<richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> ---
> Reposting this unchanged except to remove the 'RFC' tag, as
> the gdb patches have now gone upstream and the XML layout is
> therefore finalized.
> ---

Thanks, applied to target-arm.next.


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