Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:24:47AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > It seems that some kgdb support is in 2.6.2-linus:
> > 
> > Lots of architectures have had in-kernel kgdb support for a long time. 
> > Just none of the three which I use :(
> > 
> > I wouldn't support inclusion of i386 kgdb until it has had a lot of
> > cleanup, possible de-featuritisification and some thought has been applied
> > to splitting it into arch and generic bits.  It's quite a lot of work.
> 
> What about Amit's kgdb?
> 
> It's a *lot* cleaner. It does not have all the features (kgdb-eth is
> not yet ready for prime time). Would you accept that?
> 
> Oh and it is already split into arch-dependend and arch-independend
> parts, plus it has cleanly separated i/o methods...

.. and it's supported on i386, x86_64 and PPC32 right now.

Andrew, what features of George's version don't you like?  Right now
I'm working on moving the kgdb-eth driver that uses netpoll over
into Amit's version, and thinking of a cleaner away to allow for both
early debugging and multiple drivers (eth or serial A or serial B).

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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