[PATCH v3 2/4] AArch64: KGDB: Add Basic KGDB support

Vijay Kilari vijay.kilari at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 01:55:45 EST 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:07:47PM +0100, vijay.kilari at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at caviumnetworks.com>
>>
>> Add KGDB debug support for kernel debugging.
>> With this patch, basic KGDB debugging is possible.GDB register
>> layout is updated and GDB tool can establish connection with
>> target and can set/clear breakpoints.
>
> This mostly looks fine to me now. The only remaining concerns I have are
> about FP support (currently you just return zeroes for the simd register
> file) and the limited BUFMAX definition (the register file with simd is
> around 800 bytes afaict, and that's before you add the GDB packet
> information and checksums).
>
> What's the plan on sorting those out?
>

I was looking for toolchain & platform support to validate FP support.
Now I have the infrastructure to work.
I will take up after completing this activity (provided if no one is
working on this)

Regards
Vijay


> Will



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