Re: [PATCH 4/8] Added ONE_REG interface for debug instruction

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On 04.02.2013, at 01:41, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:54:41PM +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
>> This patch adds the one_reg interface to get the special instruction
>> to be used for setting software breakpoint from userspace.
> 
> Since this presumably is constant for any given platform, wouldn't
> a capability be more appropriate?

How so? A capability only tells you "I can do debug". Or "I can do debug on e500". I don't want to reteach QEMU how to do debug for every core we implement.


Alex

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