questions on CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS, DBCR0_BRT, and DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Apr 23 08:37:04 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 17:31 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 05:43 -0700, shiva7 wrote:
> > I have the same question as like above posted by Mr. Chirs. 
> 
> I had to google the subject to find what e-mail you were talking about
> -- it was posted a year ago:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=136572252330650&w=2
> 
> Next time please quote the e-mail if you're trying to revive a thread,
> and keep the original poster on CC.
> 
> I've quoted it here:
> 
> > Sorry for the bunch of emails, I'm working on some new stuff and running 
> > into issues.
> > 
> > For CONFIG_BOOKE it appears that DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS includes DBCR0_ICMP 
> > but not DBCR0_BRT.  Is that just because none of the code paths 
> > currently using DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS need to check DBCR0_BT?
> 
> Perhaps it was just an oversight.  I've CCed Dave Kleikamp and Torez
> Smith, who added DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS.

...and both of those e-mails bounced, so it may be that nobody who is
listening knows the answer.  Feel free to submit a patch that adds it,
with the changelog explaining why it should be included.

-Scott




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