From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265081AbUBDXtV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:49:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264278AbUBDXrK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:47:10 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:64966 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265059AbUBDXoY (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:44:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:45:48 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 Message-Id: <20040204154548.0521aef6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040204232447.GC256@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20040204230133.GA8702@elf.ucw.cz> <20040204152137.500e8319.akpm@osdl.org> <20040204232447.GC256@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > It seems that some kgdb support is in 2.6.2-linus: > > > > Lots of architectures have had in-kernel kgdb support for a long time. > > Just none of the three which I use :( > > > > I wouldn't support inclusion of i386 kgdb until it has had a lot of > > cleanup, possible de-featuritisification and some thought has been applied > > to splitting it into arch and generic bits. It's quite a lot of work. > > What about Amit's kgdb? > > It's a *lot* cleaner. It does not have all the features (kgdb-eth is > not yet ready for prime time). Would you accept that? > > Oh and it is already split into arch-dependend and arch-independend > parts, plus it has cleanly separated i/o methods... That all sounds positive. I was waiting until that effort settles down a bit before taking it for a ride. I have a bad habit of finding bugs in the gdb stub for some reason.