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Many of our embedded motherboards do not have
a serial port. May be I should consider adding ethernet
interface support to kgdb.

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In article <334960000.1037397999@flay>,
> Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a source level remote kernel debugger that
> >> communicates over an ethernet interface? The debugger
> >> kgdb from kgdb.sourceforge.net works only with serial port.
> >
> >A cheap terminal server might work ...
>
> Well, apart from the fact that a lot of machines don't even _have_
> serial ports..
>
> I dunno. I might even be willing to apply kgdb patches to my tree if it
> just could use the regular network card I already have connected on all
> my machines. None of my laptops have a serial line, for example, but
> they all have networking.
>
> Soon even _desktops_ probably won't have serial lines any more, only
> USB.
>
>                 Linus
>
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