[PATCH] add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps

[Kumar Gala]

On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Mark Nelson wrote:

> Update dump_task_altivec() (that has so far never been put to use)
> so that it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR
> and VRSAVE) in the same format as the ptrace get_vrregs() and add
> the appropriate glue typedefs and #defines to
> include/asm-powerpc/elf.h for it to work.

Is there some way to tell if the core dump has altivec registers  
state in it?

I'm wondering how we distinguish a core dump w/altivec state vs one  
with SPE state.

- k