[Edson.Seabra at cyclades.com: Re: BDI and 85xx]

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

>
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>> Doh my bad. Attached it is.
>>
>>
>> <8xx_gdb.diff>
>
> Well, this probably works for you but have you
> considered how it affects others?
>
> I'm not going to get into the -ggdb flags discussion,
> since I know we've had that in the past.  Why is
> this needed and should it be done for everyone?
>
> Your update of MSR_KERNEL will work for you,
> but won't work on anything that isn't a Book E processor.
> You can't make this a generic update to all processors.
> It will fail on everything that really wants to use the
> BDI_SWITCH configuration option as it was intended.
> The DE in Book E conflicts with BE in traditional PPC.

We should but this in asm-ppc/reg_booke.h since book-e has its own  
MSR_* defines.

> This also doesn't do anything to address my real concern,
> we shouldn't have to create a special kernel configuration
> just to attach a debugger .........

I'm not 100% sure this is even possible on some of the book-e variants.

- kumar