linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 14/17] powerpc/e500: Don't make kgdb use e500v1/e500v2 registers on e500mc

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:46:11 -0600
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@...ing.com>
CC:	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
	Timur Tabi <B04825@...escale.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/17] powerpc/e500: Don't make kgdb use
 e500v1/e500v2 registers on e500mc

BOn Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:07:12PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> The only systems which need the sparse PowerPC register map are the
> e500v1/e500v2.

Is this due to SPE?

> +/*
> + * On FreeScale e500v1 or e500v2 processors we need to skip some register
> + * sections, so just add up a list of what we need to store.
> + *
> + * On all other 32-bit PowerPC we can just pick the last needed register.
> + */

The "s" in "Freescale" is not capitalized, BTW.

-Scott

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