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        "From": "=?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>",
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        "Cc": "Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,\n \"Dr. David Alan Gilbert\" <dave@treblig.org>,\n Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, Chinmay Rath <rathc@linux.ibm.com>,\n\t=?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,\n Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,\n Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,\n Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>,\n Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>,\n Akihiko Odaki <odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,\n Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>,\n Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, unisono@quyllur.org, =?utf-8?q?Philipp?=\n\t=?utf-8?q?e_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org",
        "Subject": "[PATCH 00/11] monitor/hmp: Automatically handle gdb-xml exposed\n registers",
        "Date": "Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:52:16 +0100",
        "Message-ID": "<20260216225228.53959-1-philmd@linaro.org>",
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    "content": "MonitorDef registers parsing is one of the oldest APIs in QEMU,\nthus predates gdbstub and XML register files. The latters are\nmaintained by the GDB/binutils project and are more up-to-date.\nGetting the target register list from them allows to expose\nall accessible registers to the HMP commands.\n\nThis series adds gdb_get_register() to monitor to use XML\ngenerated registers, and remove the legacy MonitorDef entries\nwhich became unreachable.\n\nFirst we need to have the SPARC target better follow the\ngdb-xml API.\n\nPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé (11):\n  target/sparc: Introduce sparc_cpu_register_gdb_regs() stub\n  target/sparc: Restore 'gdb-xml/sparc64-cp0.xml'\n  target/sparc: Restore 'gdb-xml/sparc64-fpu.xml'\n  target/sparc: Restore 'gdb-xml/sparc64-cpu.xml'\n  target/sparc: Expose gdbstub registers to sparc32plus target\n  target/sparc: Expose gdbstub registers to sparc32 targets\n  monitor/hmp: Handle gdb-xml exposed registers via  gdb_get_register()\n  target/sparc: Remove MonitorDef register entries available via gdbstub\n  target/i386: Remove MonitorDef register entries available via gdbstub\n  target/m68k: Remove MonitorDef register entries available via gdbstub\n  target/ppc: Remove MonitorDef register entries available via gdbstub\n\n configs/targets/sparc-linux-user.mak          |   1 +\n configs/targets/sparc-softmmu.mak             |   1 +\n configs/targets/sparc32plus-linux-user.mak    |   1 +\n configs/targets/sparc64-linux-user.mak        |   2 +-\n configs/targets/sparc64-softmmu.mak           |   2 +-\n target/sparc/cpu.h                            |   1 +\n monitor/hmp.c                                 |  49 ++-\n target/i386/monitor.c                         |  35 ---\n target/m68k/monitor.c                         |  18 --\n target/ppc/ppc-qmp-cmds.c                     |   5 -\n target/sparc/cpu.c                            |   9 +-\n target/sparc/gdbstub.c                        | 295 +++++++++++-------\n target/sparc/monitor.c                        | 107 -------\n gdb-xml/sparc32-cp0.xml                       |  18 ++\n gdb-xml/sparc32-cpu.xml                       |  42 +++\n gdb-xml/sparc32-fpu.xml                       |  42 +++\n gdb-xml/sparc64-cp0.xml                       |  16 +\n gdb-xml/sparc64-cpu.xml                       |  42 +++\n gdb-xml/{sparc64-core.xml => sparc64-fpu.xml} |  44 +--\n 19 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 327 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 gdb-xml/sparc32-cp0.xml\n create mode 100644 gdb-xml/sparc32-cpu.xml\n create mode 100644 gdb-xml/sparc32-fpu.xml\n create mode 100644 gdb-xml/sparc64-cp0.xml\n create mode 100644 gdb-xml/sparc64-cpu.xml\n rename gdb-xml/{sparc64-core.xml => sparc64-fpu.xml} (59%)"
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