Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2

[George Anzinger]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:27:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Often it is not clear just why we are in the stub, given that 
> > > we trap such things as kernel page faults, NMI watchdog, BUG macros and such.
> >
> > Yes, that can be confusing.  A little printk on the console prior to
> > entering the debugger would be nice.
>
>
> What I did for kdb and panic some time ago was to flash the keyboard
> lights. If you use a unique frequency (different from kdb 
> and from panic) it works quite nicely.

Assuming a key board and a clear (no spin locks) path to it.  Still it only says 
we are in kgdb, now why.


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