From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sun Oct 7 11:13:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1968237B401 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 11:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15qIQl-0009UV-0X for ia64@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:13:39 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f97ICN766616 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:12:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:10:59 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Subject: Re: Things to do In-Reply-To: <20011007170619.C530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> Message-ID: <20011007191004.I530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message