Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Allow the user not to build hw_breakpoints

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue May 03 2011 - 19:40:38 EST


On 05/03/2011 04:12 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>>
>> It really is very bad... without breakpoints, you lose almost all
>> debugging support.
>
> Right, so it should be fine for embedded environment to disable breakpoints.
> It depends on CONFIG_EXPERT now.

Uh... even embedded environments need to be able to debug.

-hpa
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