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SubjectRE: lan based kgdb
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Hi,

Anything that can help with source level debugging of custom drivers
would be great for bringing up new hardware.
One of my frustrations with debugging a driver on a StrongARM based platform
has been that I don't know of a way to step through the code other than a
post-mortem review of the printk's.
An ethernet interface would be great, like the existing gdb
interface for cross-platform development.

Edwin Bland,



-----Original Message-----
From: torvalds@transmeta.com [mailto:torvalds@transmeta.com]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 1:26 PM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lan based kgdb


In article <334960000.1037397999@flay>,
Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> Is there a source level remote kernel debugger that
>> communicates over an ethernet interface? The debugger
>> kgdb from kgdb.sourceforge.net works only with serial port.
>
>A cheap terminal server might work ...

Well, apart from the fact that a lot of machines don't even _have_
serial ports..

I dunno. I might even be willing to apply kgdb patches to my tree if it
just could use the regular network card I already have connected on all
my machines. None of my laptops have a serial line, for example, but
they all have networking.

Soon even _desktops_ probably won't have serial lines any more, only USB.

Linus

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