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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:19:20 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger
From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
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> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 01:02, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
>> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
>
>> > --
>> > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
>> > geert@linux-m68k.org
>>
>> No I was not, but I am now.  At any rate, I removed the Microsoft-isms
>> from the code.  I can cut yet another patch for git6, but git5 was there
>> -- GPL2 and all.  How about putting in into the kernel guys -- :-)
>
> Seriously? Because it doesn't seem to have had enough peer review,
> it hasn't had widespread testing in somewhere like linux-next or
> -mm, and we already have kgdb so you have to also explain why you
> can't improve kgdb in the areas it trails mdb.

If you go back to LKML from 2000, this debugger has been around for 10
years.  I agree not in the hands of the public, but its very mature
in comparison to kdb or kgdb.

>
> But the ideal outcome would be if you could contribute patches to
> kgdb to the point where it is as good as mdb. It is already in the
> tree and supported by a handful of architectures... any chance of
> that? (I don't know kernel debugger code, so I ask as an interested
> user)
>

I plan to work on kdb and yes, there is a version of this that runs
as an alternate debugger of kdb - you can even switch back and forth
between them - but that misses the point as well.

I can wait untl its more widespread -- or not.

Jeff


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