Re: kgdboe?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So when will we see kgdboe or some other way of getting gdb to connect 
> to the target over ethernet upstream?

i think the proper way would be to extend the kgdb-over-console (kgdboc) 
concept and make it easy to utilize the existing netconsole code via 
KGDB. This brings nice synergy: netconsole is utilized by other debug 
infrastructure as well so anything that supports netconsole would 
automatically support KGDB as well. I dont really like the old kgdboe 
approach from a design POV as it created a parallel infrastructure for 
special-purpose kgdb IO.

likewise, the firewire debugging code could/should be extended to create 
a bidirectional console as well - that has other benefits as well. (we'd 
get printks over firewire - instead of the special-purpose firescope 
utility)

and the early console drivers could be reused to do early debugging via 
KGDB as well.

	Ingo
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