[rfc] [patch] commands to display x86 hardware structures

[Vamsi Krishna S .]

Hi Keith,

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:48:44PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Nice.  I will include the patch as it is, to let people get some
> experience with the commands.  Then we can decide if the commands
> should be rationalised or not.  In previous versions of kdb I made the
> mistake of trying to get it exactly right before releasing the code.
> 
> The pte command should become common code, with a few arch specific
> #ifdefs in it.  Most of the pte scanmning code is the same for i386,
> ia64, etc.
>
This is great, thanks very much. I will tweak the pte code a bit more:
- make most of it generic with arch hooks for displaying additional
  info
- test and fix if needed (esp. display_pgmiddle()) on highmem (4GB/64GB
  kernels
and then send you an incremental diff.

Thanks again,
Vamsi.
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