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Re: [RFA][3/5] New port: Cell BE SPU (the port itself)
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:09:59AM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> More generally, your approach of going towards a single debugger for
> Cell is of course something I would like to see work in the end -- but
> that is something that requires difficult problems to solve first.
> I had hoped to start out with a strictly single-target SPU standalone
> port first, that would be easily acceptable by avoiding those difficult
> issues, and *then* in a second step address the combined Cell debugger.
>
> I would be happy to try out whatever suggestions you might have to
> achieve that goal ...
Do you need a native GDB for this? That is, would starting with an SPU
cross target plus an SPU-aware gdbserver be useful? For now that would
probably mean a separate gdbserver which only spoke SPU. I'm not sure
if that's possible at all based on your original patch; just asking.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery