Messages in this thread | | | From | "Amit S. Kale" <> | Subject | Re: kgdb for mainline kernel: core-lite [patch 1/3] | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:27:51 +0530 |
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On Wednesday 10 Mar 2004 8:57 pm, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Yes. But as things stand, gdb 6.0 doesn't show stack traces correctly > > > with esp and eip got from switch_to and gas 2.14 can't handle i386 > > > dwarf2 CFI. Do we want to enforce getting a CVS version of gdb _and_ > > > gas to build kgdb? Certainly not. > > > > binutils 2.15 should be released soon anyways AFAIK. And for x86-64 this > > all works just fine (as demonstrated by Jim's/George's stub), so please > > get rid of it at least for x86-64. I really don't want user_schedule > > there, because it's completely unnecessary. > > I think more importantly, it's probably going to be one of those ugly > things that will make it so much harder to get it into Linus' tree. So > lets just say it'll require gdb 6.1 / binutils 2.15 for KGDB to work > best.
If we are enforcing this we need to do it correctly: is there any way to check from source code whether binutils version is correct (even a gas check will suffice)
-Amit
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