Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757987AbYHFTsW (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:48:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757482AbYHFTru (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:47:50 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:44213 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756903AbYHFTrt (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:47:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4899FFDF.8010806@keyaccess.nl> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:47:43 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, Geert Uytterhoeven , Stefan Richter , Josh Boyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger References: <17494.166.70.238.46.1217784156.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <200808060145.22321.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <56575.166.70.238.45.1217950327.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <200808060238.56113.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200808060238.56113.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 26 On 05-08-08 18:38, Nick Piggin wrote: > That's all well and good :). But it didn't exactly answer my > question. My question was not what is the point of you writing these > patches, but what is the point of merging it into the kernel (over > the alternatives). It may seem like a trivial question, but it is one > that must be answered in order to be considered to get merged. Nick, please note there is/was some mis-communication between the two of you with respect to kgdb, the currently merged GNU debugger interface, and kdb, the SGI kernel debugger. Merkey responded to you as if you asked about differences with KDB while what you did was ask about differences with KGDB. Both KDB and MDB are significantly different from KGDB at least in sofar that the latter is a remote debugger; it requires two machines. KDB and MDB are local. This makes KDB and MDB more accesible for small time use at least. The other most profound advantage is ofcourse that it's not GDB. Rene. -- 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/