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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] target-ppc: gdbstub allow byte swapping for,
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] target-ppc: gdbstub allow byte swapping for, reading/writing registers |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:33:26 +0100 |
On 17.01.2014, at 22:02, Thomas Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch allows registers to be properly read from and written to
> when using the gdbstub to debug a ppc guest running in little
> endian mode. It accomplishes this goal by byte swapping the values of
> any registers if the MSR:LE value is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <address@hidden>
> ---
> Differences from v2:
>
> Fixed formatting issues
> Added logic to ensure only FP registers have a guaranteed size of 8 bytes
I don't really like how the write case has to know about the size of a register
(maybe we could factor this out into a single function for all reads and
writes?), but this is good enough for now :). However, I can't apply the patch
as your email client seems to have broken the patch formatting.
Alex