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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:53:55 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger
From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>> OK thanks for the info. I don't actually know debugger code as I
>> said, so I wasn't against merging mdb if it offers things that
>> kgdb fundamentally cannot.
>>
>> If so, then ensuring clean interfaces indeed would seem like a
>> good first step to getting it merged.
>
> The competing implementation is kdb not kgdb. kgdb is just a stub for
> remote
> debugging using gdb. kdb is an in-kernel debugger like the one proposed
> here.
>

I don't consider them competing, just different tools for people from
different development backgrounds.  GNU and DOS/Windows.

Jeff

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