One patch added to Binutils and one added to GDB:
Support for NT_PPC_VMX in BFD and readelf.
Adds support in BFD and readelf for the new core file note NT_PPC_VMX, which contains the contents of Altivec registers in PPC architecture. Patch here.
Add support for PPC Altivec registers in core files.
This patch adds GDB support for PPC Altivec registers in core file debugging. Dumping of Altivec registers was recently added in the kernel, as well as Binutils/BFD support. Patch here.