Messages in this thread | | | From | Maxim Levitsky <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25 | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2008 04:36:30 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:15:50 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > Find the shortlog attached below. > > Most of the changes we have described here: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/21/230 > > It's not a small merge, it consists of 908 commits from 96 individual > arch/x86 developers (!): > > 671 files changed, 42791 insertions(+), 38967 deletions(-) > > so here are a few highlevel comments as well, in addition to the > shortlog: > > - a number of core files are changed as well: most notably percpu, > debugging details, timers, the firewire remote debugging patch and ... > the KGDB remote debugging stub in kernel/kgdb.c. > > - we tested KGDB to be merge-worthy within the x86 architecture (the > only supported architecture for now) and it's better to have > kernel/kgdb.c than arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c. The code is reasonably > clean and the user-space exposure is small - the only real exposure is > the decades-old remote GDB protocol. We are happy to fix up any > further cleanliness comments that people might have - but we really > wanted to start somewhere and get this thing moving. As an added > bonus: finally a kernel debugger that can be read without puking too > much ;-) [anyone remember KDB?] >
The x86 tree was merged several times, but I don't see kgdb included in latest mainline -git.
So just one question, will it be included or no?
Best regards, Maxim Levitsky
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