Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:19:20 -0600 (MDT) | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger | From | jmerkey@wolfmoun ... |
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> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 01:02, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > >> > -- >> > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- >> > geert@linux-m68k.org >> >> No I was not, but I am now. At any rate, I removed the Microsoft-isms >> from the code. I can cut yet another patch for git6, but git5 was there >> -- GPL2 and all. How about putting in into the kernel guys -- :-) > > Seriously? Because it doesn't seem to have had enough peer review, > it hasn't had widespread testing in somewhere like linux-next or > -mm, and we already have kgdb so you have to also explain why you > can't improve kgdb in the areas it trails mdb.
If you go back to LKML from 2000, this debugger has been around for 10 years. I agree not in the hands of the public, but its very mature in comparison to kdb or kgdb.
> > But the ideal outcome would be if you could contribute patches to > kgdb to the point where it is as good as mdb. It is already in the > tree and supported by a handful of architectures... any chance of > that? (I don't know kernel debugger code, so I ask as an interested > user) >
I plan to work on kdb and yes, there is a version of this that runs as an alternate debugger of kdb - you can even switch back and forth between them - but that misses the point as well.
I can wait untl its more widespread -- or not.
Jeff
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