Re: kernel debugger

From: sat (satvinder@npi.stpn.soft.net)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 09:22:36 EST


Thanks George,
The version of kdb is kdb-v0.6-2.2.13 which is for the 2.2.13 kernel I believe.
It worked after fiddling with the patch file a little bit.
But I was just wondering how come the patches are for only some specific kernels
like 2.2.13 or 2.3.48?

Regards,
Satvinder

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, George Anzinger wrote:
> Me thinks I could help you more if you were to tell me what version and
> arch you are trying to debug. I have done some work on kernel debug
> options for the i386 branch at 2.2.1x rev level.
>
> Folks, any support for making kernel debug a configure option in the
> kernel? I will kick it off with an ix86 patch (to be followed by ppc)
> if there is interest.
>
> George
>
> sat wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I would like to debug the kernel and the only way I find it can be done is by
> > applying some patch which is given away at oss.sgi.com , but even that is not
> > of much help as it didnt install properly in the sense that none of the
> > additions for kdb could be done.
> > Is there any other patch which would not cause this much of problem and goes
> > smoothly.
> > I would highly appreciate if I can be given some links which can tell me more
> > about kernel debugging.
> > Thanks,
> > Regards,
> > Satvinder
> >
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