Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262453AbUCCQlJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:41:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262511AbUCCQlJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:41:09 -0500 Received: from mail1.fw-sj.sony.com ([160.33.82.68]:49342 "EHLO mail1.fw-sj.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262485AbUCCQlG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:41:06 -0500 Message-ID: <40460C8E.4010100@am.sony.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:49:18 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Billy Rose CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel mode console References: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com> In-Reply-To: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.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 Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 35 Billy Rose wrote: > i have some bandwidth i can dedicate to writting a kernel module that provides > a command interpreter running in kernel space (think of it as the god mode > console in quake). the purpose for this would be primarily aimed at the > kernel developers so they can reach in and grab variables, dump certain > sections of memory, walk memory, dump code segments, dump processes > (including the kernel data structures for them), anything else i/you can > think of. is this a waste of time, or would that get used? I think it would be valuable, especially for embedded developers when they have trouble getting user space up on a new platform. Also, it could be something simple and solid. It's a pain to set up a remote debug session just to poke around in the kernel. Remote debug setup is complex and often fragile. I'd be willing to test this if you get something running, and give you some feedback. For me, it would be best if the module could be statically linked. How do you plan to handle symbolic information? ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com ============================= - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/