Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262436AbUCHKPa (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:15:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262438AbUCHKPa (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:15:30 -0500 Received: from svr44.ehostpros.com ([66.98.192.92]:35298 "EHLO svr44.ehostpros.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262436AbUCHKPW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:15:22 -0500 From: "Amit S. Kale" Organization: EmSysSoft To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: kgdb for mainline kernel: core-lite [patch 1/3] Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:45:09 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trini@kernel.crashing.org, george@mvista.com, pavel@ucw.cz References: <200403081504.30840.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <20040308015433.5424cc52.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040308015433.5424cc52.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403081545.09916.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr44.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - emsyssoft.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 41 On Monday 08 Mar 2004 3:24 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Amit S. Kale" wrote: > > Here is kgdb for mainline kernel in three patches. > > Thanks for working on this. Credits go to all the kgdb developers. > > > This is a lite > > version of kgdb available from kgdb.sourceforge.net. I believe that all > > of us agree on this lite kgdb. > > What is "lite" about it? As in, what features have been removed? Here are features that are present only in full kgdb: 1. Thread support (aka info threads) 2. console messages through gdb 3. Automatic loading of modules in gdb 4. Support for x86_64 5. Support for powerpc 6. kgdb over ethernet [This isn't ready in the full version as well at this point of time] -Amit > > > It supports basic debugging of i386 architecture and debugging over a > > serial line. Contents of these patches are as follows: > > > > [1] core-lite.patch: architecture indepndent code > > [2] i386-lite.patch: i386 architecture dependent code > > [3] 8250.patch: support for generic serial driver > > What is the story on kgdboe? - 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/