Announce: kdb v4.4 is available for kernel 2.6.17

Keith Owens
2006-06-27T11:45:15Z

KDB (Linux Kernel Debugger) has been updated for kernel 2.6.17.

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/
ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/mirrors/oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/

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Current versions are :-

kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-common-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-i386-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-x86_64-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-ia64-1.bz2

SGI is now supporting KDB for x86_64. Thanks go to Jack Vogel for
looking after the x86_64 patch in the past.

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.16-common-1.

2006-06-19 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-common-1.

2006-05-31 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Break spinlocks for keyboard entry. Hopefully a temporary hack while
I track down why keyboard entry to KDB is hanging.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-common-2.

2006-05-25 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-common-1.

2006-05-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Refresh bfd related files from binutils 2.16.91.0.2.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-common-2.

2006-05-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-common-1.

2006-04-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc3-common-1.

2006-04-22 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc2-common-1.

2006-04-11 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc1-common-1.

2006-04-05 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* More fixes for the timing race with KDB_ENTER_SLAVE.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-common-5.

2006-03-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Some code was testing KDB_IS_RUNNING() twice, which left it open to
races. Cache the result instead.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-common-4.

2006-03-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Change CONFIG_LKCD to CONFIG_LKCD_DUMP.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-common-3.

2006-03-22 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Add some more xpc flags. Dean Nelson, SGI.
* Replace open coded counter references with atomic_read().
* Pass early_uart_console to early_uart_setup(). Francois
Wellenreiter, Bull.
* Replace open code with for_each_online_cpu().
* If cpus do not come into kdb after a few seconds then let
architectures send a more forceful interrupt.
* Close a timing race with KDB_ENTER_SLAVE.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-common-2.

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.16-i386-1.

2006-06-19 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-i386-1.

2006-05-25 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-i386-1.

2006-05-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Refresh bfd related files from binutils 2.16.91.0.2.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-i386-2.

2006-05-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-i386-1.

2006-04-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc3-i386-1.

2006-04-22 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc2-i386-1.

2006-04-11 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc1-i386-1.

2006-03-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Change CONFIG_LKCD to CONFIG_LKCD_DUMP.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-i386-3.

2006-03-24 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Define a dummy kdba_wait_for_cpus().
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-i386-2.

2006-03-21 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-i386-1.

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.16-x86_64-1.

2006-06-19 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-x86_64-1.

2006-05-31 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Define arch/x86_64/kdb/kdb_cmds.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-x86_64-2.

2006-05-25 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-x86_64-1.

2006-05-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Refresh bfd related files from binutils 2.16.91.0.2.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-x86_64-2.

2006-05-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6-17-rc4-x86_64-1.

2006-04-22 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6-17-rc2-x86_64-1.

2006-04-13 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Remove trailing white space.
* kdb v4.4-2.6-17-rc1-x86_64-1.

Changelog extract since kdb v4.4-2.6.16-ia64-1.

2006-06-19 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-ia64-1.

2006-05-25 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc5-ia64-1.

2006-05-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Refresh bfd related files from binutils 2.16.91.0.2.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-ia64-2.

2006-05-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc4-ia64-1.

2006-04-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc3-ia64-1.

2006-04-22 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc2-ia64-1.

2006-04-11 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-rc1-ia64-1.

2006-03-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Change CONFIG_LKCD to CONFIG_LKCD_DUMP.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-ia64-3.

2006-03-24 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Use INIT to interrupt cpus that do not respond to a normal kdb IPI.
* Remove KDBA_MCA_TRACE from arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.16-ia64-2.

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