From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:46:42 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] new kdb patch with disassembler support Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi, I grew tired of not being able to disassemble code with kdb. This was really tedious when I was looking at the PAL problems. So I decided to add support for it. It is included in this patch and is based on the BFD code. Summary of changes: - upgrade to 2.4-test1 - disassembler support via the id command. Symbol lookups is fully supported. Single stepping now shows code as well. (S.Eranian) - restructured machine dependent input/output (kdba_io.c). There was way too much code duplication. A side effect is that with 2 consoles (serial+vga) you can now debug from either places. (S.Eranian) - vastly enhanced command line editing (S.Eranian): * (CTRL-U/CTRL-C) * history buffer via (CTRL-P/CTRL-N) * Enter will redo the last command (that's for David!) - some code cleanups (David + Stephane) - updated backtracing support to latest unwind code (D.Mosberger) The patch is relative to 2.4-test1 + David's 0609 diff. It is available from the HPLabs web site at: ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/kdb-2.4-test1.patch Enjoy, Known Issue: - on serial line the output of certain editing commands like CTRL-U is bogus but the buffer is valid. This is due to some timing problems with the UART which I did not have time to really fix. Anybody with UART understanding can probably fix this in minutes. Patch welcomed ! -Stephane