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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:10:59 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        <ia64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Things to do
Message-ID:  <20011007191004.I530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011007170619.C530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Doug Rabson wrote:

> A random list of things which need doing:
>
> 	DDB 'n' command
> 	Remote GDB support
> 	link_elf backend
> 	rtld-elf
> 	FPSWA support
> 	Workaround ar.itc errata
> 	Figure out why loader.rc hangs the loader
> 	Use AllocatePages in copy.c to make sure we don't step on EFI
> 	Resize VHPT based on physical memory
> 	Unaligned fault handler
> 	ia32 emulation
> 	Write pipelined bcopy/memcpy
> 	Write inline ntohl etc.
> 	Make sure that busdma works on >4GB machines
> 	Make all drivers use busdma
> 	ISA dma
> 	New toolchain
> 	Rewrite db_trace.c to use unwind records
>
> Thats all I can think of for now. There are probably lots more.

Add ptrace support to that list. I think ia64 gdb adds some extra ptrace
calls for playing silly games with the register stack.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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