Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:52:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, mp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb breaks world Message-ID: <15647.24981.880431.704585@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020630123742.C71518@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <15646.25960.889781.783159@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020629193514.A51177@dragon.nuxi.com> <15646.28621.258621.69134@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020629214620.A56685@dragon.nuxi.com> <15647.23464.742291.557283@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020630123742.C71518@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 03:27:36PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > What was the rationale for how the x86 kvm-fbsd.c was brought forward
> > and the alpha kvm-fbsd.c was left behind?
>
> I begged people to try the gdb52 port, but it turns out that there wasn't
> Alpha kgdb support -- only i386 support. At the point I realized
Partially my fault. I was at my office in LA for the last 3 weeks and
my -current alpha back in OH was powered off, so I had no way to test
the port. I should have at least looked at it, though.
> everything we needed wasn't part of the gdb52 port was already 1/2 into
> the import.
>
> > Was it intended that other platforms add support via #ifdef's to
> > kvm-fbsd.c, or was it just an oversight and I should just bring the
> > existing alpha kvm-fbsd.c forward?
>
> IMO we keep doing things too differently between our arches. I would
> like to see us try to do the same thing as much as possible. I thought
> maybe we could share a single kvm-fbsd.c file; but after looking at it
> when I made that commit I guess not. BUT I do think we can share some
> things across all arches (maybe we add a few #defines to arch headers to
> help). So I expect there will need to be a kvm-fbsd-{ARCH}.c file added
> with just a _few_ things in it.
I agree. Most of the code is duplicated, but done in slightly
different ways since we (I?) derived the kvm-fbsd.c file from existing
NetBSD/alpha support.
Drew
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