Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2

From: Tom Rini
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 19:51:55 EST


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:17:33PM -0500, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:52:15PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > +++ b/Documentation/sh/kgdb.txt Tue Feb 3 19:45:43 2004
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
> > > +
> > > +This file describes the configuration and behavior of KGDB for the SH
> > > +kernel. Based on a description from Henry Bell <henry.bell@xxxxxx>, it
> > > +has been modified to account for quirks in the current implementation.
> > > +
> > >
> > > That's great, can we get i386 kgdb, too? Or at least amd64 kgdb
> > > ;-). [Or was it a mistake? It seems unlikely that kgdb could enter
> > > Linus tree without major flamewar...]
> >
> > FWIW, there has been PPC32 KGDB support in kernel.org for ages. OTOH,
> > I'm quite happy that SH kgdb support came in (mental note made to talk
> > to Henry about the KGDB merging stuffs).
> >
> The SH kgdb work is a combination of effort by Henry Bell and Jeremy Siegel,
> (ST and MV both had their own versions, Jeremy did the sync work between
> the two) neither of which have touched it since mid 2.4 or so when it was
> first merged into the LinuxSH tree.
>
> Getting the SH kgdb stuff updated is on my TODO list, I'd definitely be
> interested in getting this stuff in sync with Amit's work as well. Any
> pointers?

What Amit has is at http://kgdb.sf.net/
What I've done on top of this is at bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-kgdb
and http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/bitkeeper/kgdb .

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Tom Rini
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