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Re: [rfc/rfa] [2/4] SPU enhancements: main part


Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It is not useful to have so many index entries that all begin with
> "info spu" and all point to almost the same place (probably the same
> page in the printed manual).  It is better to have just one index
> entry "info spu".

Like so?

diff -urNp gdb-orig/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo gdb-head/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
--- gdb-orig/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2007-05-31 18:54:31.000000000 +0200
+++ gdb-head/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2007-06-03 14:19:21.918012628 +0200
@@ -15100,6 +15100,7 @@ all uses of @value{GDBN} with the archit
 * Alpha::
 * MIPS::
 * HPPA::               HP PA architecture
+* SPU::                Cell Broadband Engine SPU architecture
 @end menu
 
 @node i386
@@ -15280,6 +15281,43 @@ given @var{address}.
 @end table
 
 
+@node SPU
+@subsection Cell Broadband Engine SPU architecture
+@cindex Cell Broadband Engine
+@cindex SPU
+
+When @value{GDBN} is debugging the Cell Broadband Engine SPU architecture,
+it provides the following special commands:
+
+@table @code
+@item info spu event
+@kindex info spu
+Display SPU event facility status.  Shows current event mask
+and pending event status.
+
+@item info spu signal
+Display SPU signal notification facility status.  Shows pending
+signal-control word and signal notification mode of both signal
+notification channels.
+
+@item info spu mailbox
+Display SPU mailbox facility status.  Shows all pending entries,
+in order of processing, in each of the SPU Write Outbound,
+SPU Write Outbound Interrupt, and SPU Read Inbound mailboxes.
+
+@item info spu dma
+Display MFC DMA status.  Shows all pending commands in the MFC
+DMA queue.  For each entry, opcode, tag, class IDs, effective
+and local store addresses and transfer size are shown.
+
+@item info spu proxydma
+Display MFC Proxy-DMA status.  Shows all pending commands in the MFC
+Proxy-DMA queue.  For each entry, opcode, tag, class IDs, effective
+and local store addresses and transfer size are shown.
+
+@end table
+ 
+
 @node Controlling GDB
 @chapter Controlling @value{GDBN}


Bye,
Ulrich 

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com


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