Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Has anyone ever worked on porting the GDB distribution's gdbserver to > > GNU/Hurd? > > I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is no. As far as I know. > > In case you don't know: this would allow for debugging programs on >

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 23 Dec 2006 19:36:02 +0100, a écrit : > On my Athlon XP 1.6 GHz (or similar, I don't know...) I didn't notice any > speedup (compared to the current Debian package), but in contrast to the > Debian package I had the GCC smashing stack protection and the GNU Mach > kernel deb

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Global pages permit to keep the kernel pages in the TLB whatever the > current process, here is a patch for supporting them. On my Pentium M, I > get a 5% speedup on dd < /dev/zero bs=1 > /dev/null . On my Athlon XP 1.6 GHz

Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

2006-12-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:10:22 +0100 > From: Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello! > > Has anyone ever worked on porting the GDB distribution's gdbserver to > GNU/Hurd? I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is no. > In case you don't know: this would allow for debugging progra

Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 03:56:17PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > If you have any reports about gdbserver not working on GNU/Hurd then > report them here so that they can be fixed. Uhm, that's exactly what I did in my original email, you may want to re-read it: | Has anyone ever worked on porti

gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Has anyone ever worked on porting the GDB distribution's gdbserver to GNU/Hurd? In case you don't know: this would allow for debugging programs on GNU/Hurd systems using a cross debugger running on another system (e.g. a non GNU/Hurd one). This is of advantage if you're cross compiling an

[task #6200] support mmx/xmm et al.

2006-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Update of task #6200 (project hurd): Wiki-like text discussion box: => There's a bit of work to do both in the Hurd and glibc too, because of GNU Mach's thread_get_state(i386_FLOAT_STATE) call. - hurd/exec/elfcore.c:fetch_thread_fpregset(): in the core dump, fpx state w

Re: Gnumach FP Struct (Beating a dead horse)

2006-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Fri 22 Dec 2006 23:45:18 -0500, a écrit : > 1) What do I do with the xmm space, ignore it? Of course no, since fxsave will fill it up anyway. > 2) Where is the best place to check for fxsr? Should it be done in > fpu.c after we determine fpu_type = FP_387? That should be fine