From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262992AbVFXBpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262994AbVFXBpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:38 -0400 Received: from [67.137.28.189] ([67.137.28.189]:64401 "EHLO vger") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262992AbVFXBpP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: <42BB510B.5080500@utah-nac.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:17:15 -0600 From: jmerkey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Christoph Lameter , Clyde Griffin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Beulich Subject: Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD) References: <20050624003515.GB28077@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20050624003515.GB28077@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have downloaded and reviewed the code. It's a GBD replacement and is not fully open source. KDB is at present more capable. It has a lot of promise, but it does not have the all the architectural features necessary to replace either KDB or GDB at present. Jeff >On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:24:04PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > >>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Clyde Griffin wrote: >> >> >> >>>Novell engineering is introducing the Novell Linux Kernel Debugger >>>(NLKD) as an open source project intended to provide an enhanced and >>>robust debugging experience for Linux kernel developers. >>> >>> >>Umm... How does this differ from KDB? >> >> > >Sounds like it overlaps w/ both KDB and KGDB...still, the question >stands... > >John > >