Re: ksymoops changes for mips

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:19:14 +1000, 
Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com> wrote:
>ksymoops is designed to run on any build arch and debug an oops report
>from any other target arch, as long as binutils supports the target
>arch.  The presence or absence of __MIPSEL__ or __MIPSEB__ on the build
>system says nothing about the type of the failing target, ksymoops
>relies on text in the oops report to determine special cases like 32
>bit userland and 64 bit kernel.
>
>The best option is for a mips64 kernel to indicate that it is 64 bit
>and its endianess.  Instead of printing
>
>  "epc     : %016lx\n"
>
>print
>
>  "epc     : %016lx (64 "
>#ifdef __MIPSEL__
>		"LSB"
>#else
>		"MSB"
>#endif
>		")\n"

I have a new ksymoops release coming up.  Is it OK if I include code to
look for (64 LSB) and (64 MSB) in the oops and decode accordingly.  I
don't expect the kernel to produce this output immediately, I just want
agreement on the format that will be produced.



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