Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.5 for Linux 2.6.17 (with probemanagement)

From: Karim Yaghmour
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 03:54:12 EST



Ingo Molnar wrote:
> are you arguing that i'm trying to force breakpoint-based probing on
> you? I dont. In fact i explicitly mentioned that i'd accept and support
> a 5-byte NOP in the body of the marker, in the following mails:

Actually that won't work if the kernel runs directly from rom/flash
simply because it's not possible to do any form of binary editing
on the image, as is possible in the more common desktop or workstation
case where the kernel runs from ram.

Karim
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