From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Mathur, Shobhit" <Shobhit_mathur@adaptec.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Device-driver debugger on Linux ?
Date: 11 Jun 2003 13:00:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055332852.872.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE7B34C.B803F915@adaptec.com>
On Mer, 2003-06-11 at 23:55, Mathur, Shobhit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know whether there exists a device-driver debugger on
> Linux like SoftIce on Windows. From the working of kgdb, I understand
> that the debugging on the Target machine can happen once the code
> reaches the gdbstub, which is well past the driver-initialisations.
You can invoke the kgdbstubs stuff very very early, well before device
driver setup. Also you can (and its normally easier for development)
load device drivers at run time
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2003-06-11 22:55 Mathur, Shobhit
2003-06-11 12:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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