#12007 NORM Not Tri: gdb for ARM lacks NEON support

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#12007: gdb for ARM lacks NEON support
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 Reporter:  greenfeld  |                 Owner:  pbrobinson                       
     Type:  defect     |                Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal     |             Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
Component:  distro     |               Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:             |           Next_action:  diagnose                         
 Verified:  0          |   Deployment_affected:                                   
Blockedby:             |              Blocking:                                   
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 While trying to debug #11994 we discovered that "info all-registers" in
 gdb does not show the d* series of registers, suggesting that gdb and/or
 the kernel were not compiled to support debugging ARM's NEON extensions.

 According to gdb's disassembly, the code being analyzed was using the d
 registers, but we could not see their values.

 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/beagleboard/Sw6Cvh4QYkI
 has a recipe on how to enable NEON debugging support.

 At this time we do not know if this is critical to solving #11994 or not.

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