Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 02:26:02 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trini@kernel.crashing.org, george@mvista.com,
       pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: Re: kgdb for mainline kernel: core-lite [patch 1/3]
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"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com> wrote:
>
> Here are features that are present only in full kgdb:
>  1. Thread support  (aka info threads)

argh, disaster.  I discussed this with Tom a week or so ago when it looked
like this it was being chopped out and I recall being told that the
discussion was referring to something else.

Ho-hum, sorry.  Can we please put this back in?

>  2. console messages through gdb

hm, it was occasionally handy.  Is there a lot of code involved?

>  3. Automatic loading of modules in gdb

OK.  I think.  What does this feature actually do?

>  4. Support for x86_64
>  5. Support for powerpc

These are planned, I assume?

>  6. kgdb over ethernet [This isn't ready in the full version as well at this 
>  point of time]

OK.  But the version in -mm and -mpm works OK, does it not?  Is there some
difference in implementation which causes it to be broken in your tree?

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