From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765207AbYEFRFi (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 13:05:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758500AbYEFRFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 13:05:30 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-156.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.36]:51852 "HELO outbound-mail-156.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759252AbYEFRF3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 13:05:29 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: kgdboe? Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:05:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Jason Wessel , lkml , "David S. Miller" , Christoph Hellwig References: <481EFE69.20308@windriver.com> <200805051110.32238.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <20080506131632.GD2146@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080506131632.GD2146@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805061005.13669.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.27.49 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:16 am Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jesse Barnes wrote: > > So when will we see kgdboe or some other way of getting gdb to connect > > to the target over ethernet upstream? > > i think the proper way would be to extend the kgdb-over-console (kgdboc) > concept and make it easy to utilize the existing netconsole code via > KGDB. This brings nice synergy: netconsole is utilized by other debug > infrastructure as well so anything that supports netconsole would > automatically support KGDB as well. I dont really like the old kgdboe > approach from a design POV as it created a parallel infrastructure for > special-purpose kgdb IO. When I looked at the sources right after it was merged this seemed like the preferred approach, but I couldn't find any evidence of anyone working on the port... Are you aware of any? Jesse