Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:41:09 -0500 | From | Jim Nance <> | Subject | Re: Ideas/Suggestions for 2.2 |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 09:56:55AM -0800, Ben Woodard wrote: > Is it concievable to make something like sun's kadb but from the gdb > sources? What kadb does is you boot it instead of the kernel and then > it boots the kernel. Then when when an non maskable interrupt comes, > it drops into kadb rather than rebooting.
If you run MkLinux (there is an x86 version), you are supposed to be able to run a kernel as a user process and use gdb to debug it. This might be useful, though I suspect a lot of bugs are dependent on not having MACH provide the low level hardware abstraction.
Jim
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