Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/gdbsx: define format strings for aarch64

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 17:12 -0800, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 10:36:16 +0000
> Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 11:28 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 02, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I suppose there is no harm in this, but is there any chance that
> > > > gdbsx would actually work on arm64 without significant actual
> > > > work going into it?
> > > 
> > > I have no idea. But I just noticed its built only due to this line
> > > in our xen.spec:
> > > 
> > > make -C tools/debugger/gdbsx
> > > 
> > > Perhaps this should be guarded by a %ifarch x86_64.
> > 
> > I suspect that right now that this would be wise (maybe i386 too?) --
> > hopefully Mukesh can advise.
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> It should just work if you can quickly implement 
> arch/x86/debug.c for arm.

Thanks.

Looks like we'd also need to make a bunch of arch/x86/domctl.c generic
too, or implement the appropriate arm equivalents.

Not a 4.4 thing for sure, if someone wants gdbsx on arm then patches for
4.5 would be welcome as always.

>  If not, you'd need to "arch it out".
> 
> thanks
> mukesh



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