Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:26:47 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger |
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:21:44PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > The hardest problem: how do you do the block read? Possibilities: > > - Ignore the problem, use normal block device I/O > - Use the real mode bios, needs V86 support
And it requires a sync before every possible crash to ensure cache coherency (assuming you want to access the same ext2 without the debugger as well) So you basically cannot buffer writes to that source code.
-Andi
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