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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:10:55 -0500
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger
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Stefan Richter wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Is there work underway to get kdb merged?  (I'm just asking because I
> don't know; I personally don't need kdb nor mdb.)

KDB still exists in patches but the merge effort was given up when Linus
stated that he did not want a kernel debugger. No problem to start merge
attempts again AFAICT. Jay?

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