Messages in this thread | | | From | Edwin Bland <> | Subject | RE: lan based kgdb | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:44:23 -0800 |
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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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