Re: PATCH: Extend gdb remote protocol for AVX

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:10:21 -0400
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:58:36PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> > Are there any objections to my AVX patch?
>>
>> There were objections - just read the thread you are replying to.  If
>> you have not changed the patch, then there are still objections.
>
> I also think it would be good to seperate out the changes to GDB's
> internal register file from the extensions you want to make to the

Here is the patch to extend gdb remote protocol for AVX.

> remote protocol.  And I'd really like to see how an implementation of
> i387_supply_xsave() and i387_collect_xsave() would look in that
> context.

It is hard to implement them without an OS running on AVX
H/W. At this moment, we only need to define a remote protocol
for AVX.  We can work on native AVX support when H/W is
available.

Thanks.


-- 
H.J.

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