Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 13:46:21 EST


Nick Piggin wrote:

> OK thanks for the info. I don't actually know debugger code as I
> said, so I wasn't against merging mdb if it offers things that
> kgdb fundamentally cannot.
>
> If so, then ensuring clean interfaces indeed would seem like a
> good first step to getting it merged.

The competing implementation is kdb not kgdb. kgdb is just a stub for remote
debugging using gdb. kdb is an in-kernel debugger like the one proposed here.
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