Re: kgdboe?

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:16 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

When I looked at the sources right after it was merged this seemed like the 
preferred approach, but I couldn't find any evidence of anyone working on the 
port...  Are you aware of any?

Jesse
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