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Re: [rfc/rfa] [2/4] SPU enhancements: main part
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: eliz at gnu dot org
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:21:57 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: 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
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com