Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:55:44 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux |
| |
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:34:47PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > KDB is putrid. Can it debug double faults? NO. Can it debug complex > register and numeric evaluation statements like IF ((EAX == 1) && > [ESP-4] == 0x3000)? NO. Can it debug nested task gate exceptions?
remote gdb does that fine.
I've never seen a nested task gate on Linux...
> NO. Can it debug SMP locks races? NO. Can it debug priority inversion > problems in sleep locks? NO.
Given. Priority inversion does not seem to be a big problem in Linux though (kernel threads usually run at the same priority, with the only higher priority being interrupts/bhs). Also the sleep locking seems to be generally simple enough that it is not a problem for user processes.
> Can the Kernel debugger in NetWare? YES. Can the Kernel Debugger in > NT? YES.
I guess they need it ;)
-Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |