From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263177AbVFXG3F (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:29:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263141AbVFXG3E (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:29:04 -0400 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:30772 "EHLO emea1-mh.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263177AbVFXG24 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:28:56 -0400 Message-Id: <42BBC468020000780001D4B0@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:29:28 +0200 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Keith Owens" Cc: "Clyde Griffin" , Subject: Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Keith Owens 24.06.05 04:15:19 >>> >On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:54:09 -0600, >"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. >Hmm, no backtrace, That's certainly wrong: for x86 it uses .eh_frame info, for ia64 it would use the native one. >turns off kprobes, A temporary measure; enabling this again is on the todo list. >does not handle ia64 MCA/INIT. It doesn't handle ia64 at all at present; the code in there is yet-to-be-ported code. Only x86{,-64} has been dealt with so far. >And don't get me started about the trailing white space in the patch. While I wasn't aware of any (and honestly, I hate discovering such, too), that is certainly the easiest thing to take care of. >I'll stick with KDB for now. Your choice, obviously. Jan