Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 01:45:22 +1000 |
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008 01:19, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > > 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.
OK I don't doubt that at all, but I just mean in terms of being reviewed by Linux people and how it merges with the current kernel (eg. we now have a debugger, which was unthinkable in 2000 :)).
> > 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.
That would be great if you do work on kgdb... But I guess I do miss the point, then. Is there a technical difference with kgdb that cannot be worked around, a difference of opinion with maintainers, a wish to have mdb features at short notice?
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