Re: [PATCH] Unify watch.S and remove arch/mips/lib-{32,64}

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> I think we can simply drop the entire watchpoint support.  This was
> only ever working on R4000/R4400 and even there only somewhat useful
> for kernel debugging.  So if we ever use watchpoint support I think
> something needs to be developed from scratch.

 A long-term plan is to make them available to userland through ptrace() 
in a uniform way covering MIPS32/64 watchpoints as well for gdb and 
suchlike.

  Maciej