Re: RFC: Revise n32 ptrace interface

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:26:01PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> 1.  We need to get at the 64-bit registers.  I considered a number of
> different approaches for this and decided to just implement a 64-bit
> PTRACE_GETREGS instead of messing with PTRACE_PEEKUSR.  It's much simpler
> this way.  I didn't add one for the DSP registers; that can be handled
> separately when someone's working on debug support for them...

I quite deliberately did omit DSP support from 64-bit ptrace(2); there
is currently no MIPS64 processor with DSP support that I know of.

  Ralf