From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 02:48:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kdb v1.7 for IA64 is available Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:34:57 +1100, Keith Owens said: Keith> SGI's version of kdb was redesigned some months ago to better handle Keith> SMP, as well as recursion and debugging of kdb itself. Unless David Keith> Mosberger or Stephane Eranian have any objections[*], SGI will take Keith> over kdb for IA64 again. No objections from our side. Stephane took over only because the original code was orphaned and we needed a working kdb... Keith> [*] Yes David, I _will_ remove the switch_stack change. Great! This is the one reason why I'm _not_ using the current version of Keith's patch. It modifies the switch stack structure, which is about as fundamental a data structure as you get in the kernel. I don't believe this directly affects kernel functionality in any known ways, but there is always a risk it could do so in unknown ways---which isn't ideal when trying to track down a problem... However, since Keith agreed to fix this in the next version, this issue will be moot soon and then I, too, will get to enjoy the new features. ;-) --david