The Linux/PPC kernel supports PEEK/POKE for fetching registers.  The
proposed Kernel interface _consistently_ extends that interface using
the exact same mechanims to obtain the altivec regiters.  All the
required changes for this have been posted and have been demonstrated to
work.

Separate to that, it has been _proposed_ that the PPC ptrace() interface
be changed so that get/set reg for all register classes be added
(incomplete patch posted).  Isn't this separate to the problem at hand?

I think you are correct they are separate issues.  I posted both methods
so we could decide in which direction we wanted to go with the ptrace
interface.  I would like to see the single word at a time interface that
currectly exists be patched to support AltiVec so we can get debugger
support working.  I would like this done to the 2.4.x tree.

- kumar


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