Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750929AbWIVHxx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:53:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750932AbWIVHxx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:53:53 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:24071 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919AbWIVHxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:53:52 -0400 Message-ID: <45139B6B.3000002@opersys.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:14:35 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060804 Fedora/1.0.4-0.5.1.fc5 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Mathieu Desnoyers , Martin Bligh , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Masami Hiramatsu , prasanna@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel , Jes Sorensen , Tom Zanussi , Richard J Moore , Michel Dagenais , Christoph Hellwig , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , William Cohen , ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.5 for Linux 2.6.17 (with probe management) References: <20060921160009.GA30115@Krystal> <20060921160656.GA24774@elte.hu> <20060921214248.GA10097@Krystal> <20060922070714.GB4167@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060922070714.GB4167@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 21 Ingo Molnar wrote: > are you arguing that i'm trying to force breakpoint-based probing on > you? I dont. In fact i explicitly mentioned that i'd accept and support > a 5-byte NOP in the body of the marker, in the following mails: Actually that won't work if the kernel runs directly from rom/flash simply because it's not possible to do any form of binary editing on the image, as is possible in the more common desktop or workstation case where the kernel runs from ram. Karim -- President / Opersys Inc. Embedded Linux Training and Expertise www.opersys.com / 1.866.677.4546 - 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/