Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:45:49 -0600 | From | "M. R. Brown" <> | Subject | Re: lan based kgdb |
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* Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net> on Fri, Nov 15, 2002:
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:24, Stelian Pop wrote: > > > Using USB instead of the serial line or the network card would be > > the best IMHO, because: > > > > * many machines have network cards, but all machines have USB > > (and it's gonna stay this way for some time) > > > > * the USB stack seems simpler than the net stack + > > (eventualy) pcmcia + network card driver. > > > > Maybe the 'simpler' USB protocols (usbkbd and usbmouse) could be > > used for this, I don't know... > > USB hardware and protocols are master-slave, meaning that you can not > connect another computer to this one directly. What USB *device* would > you want to see connected? >
Not true. Just grab any USB master<->master cable. There's P2P network drivers already in the kernel that support most brands of cables.
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