Re: net/kgdb: Taking another crack at implementing kgdboe

[Daniel Thompson]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 04:33:48PM -0800, Jordan Hand wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I have been scouring patches from around 2005-2008 related to kgdboe
> (kgdb over ethernet) and I am interested in taking a shot at getting it
> into the mainline kernel.
> 
> I found an implementation from Tom Rini in 2005[1] and an out of tree
> implementation[2].
> 
> So I have a couple questions before I dive in:
> 
> 1. Is anyone actively working on this? From lkml archives it appears no
> but I thought I'd ask.
> 2. Does anyone have an objection to this feature? From my reading it
> seems that the reason it was never merged was due to reliability issues
> but I just want to double check that people don't see some larger issue.

Like Jason said, I can't see any objections on the kgdb side but
integrating even with simple peripherals (UARTs for example) has it's
share of pitfalls so it may take a fair bit of work to make the net
developers comfortable!


Daniel.