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From: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:23:41AM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> > > Here is the kgdb stub's "send a byte" function:
[...]
> 
> > USB (with USB-to-serial adapter), network, ieee1394 would be 
> > acceptable replacements for me.
> 
> Have you ever looked at a USB or 1394 driver? 

As a matter of fact, I did.

> The nice thing about
> serial is that the software to make it work is trivial. A debugger that 
> relies on a 5000 line driver is quite suspect.

Agreed. But even a suspect debugger is preferable to no debugger at all.

Look, serial ports are becoming obsolete. We (not everybody but many
people) need kgdb.

The general oppinion seems to be that a mini network stack + a simple
network card driver is the easiest thing to implement (mostly because
already done). That's fine for me.

Stelian.
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