Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:08:51 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 kgdb without serial port |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > 2.6 kgdb patches in -mm tree seem to contain kgdb-over-ethernet stuff, > > > but still require me to fill in serial port interrupt/address. Is > > > there easy way to make it work without serial port? [This notebook has > > > none :-(]. > > > > That's a bit ugly, but things should still work OK? Give it some random > > UART address but specify an ethernet connection at boot time - the kgdb > > stub should never touch the UART. > > I found out what was biting me: using 2.95 with kgdb is bad idea. 2.95 > with kgdb means reboot just after uncompressing kernel -- pretty nasty > to debug. Please apply,
I've been using 2.95.3 on and off for ages, no problems?
> PS: kgdb could use some code-style changes. Will you accept such > patches?
Spose so. The kgdb stub really needs a serious reorganisation so that non-ia32 architectures can share generic things. And general reduction of the patch footprint, maybe some feature removal too. A fairly large job.
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