Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 06:53:28 EST


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:25 +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> However, this highlighted a more serious problem in the x86_64 kernel (or
> more likely in the kdb patch) --- the kernel compiled with -g panics when
> you try to return from kdb after hitting a breakpoint. This is a bug and
> I'll investigate to find out the reason why it panics. (I hope it is not
> an "assumption" of the x86_64 port that one must never compile the kernel
> with -g either...)

That is isn't; for example the Fedora Core 2 and 3 and the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 kernels are compiled wit -g.


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