From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Broadfoot, KenX" Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:43:46 +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 I like this version of kdb a lot. However I am looking forward to the 2.4.1 version even more as 2.4.1-010131 fixes alot of unaligned memory access problems I was seeing. --ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Owens [SMTP:kaos@ocs.com.au] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 6:35 PM > To: Michael Madore > Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org > Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kdb v1.7 for IA64 is available > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:33:27 -0800, > Michael Madore wrote: > >Keith Owens wrote > >> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ia64/ contains kdb v1.7 for > >> IA64, using the same design as kdb for i386. This is completely > >> incompatible with HP's version of kdb, use one or the other but not > >> both. > >> > > > >Is there an advantage to using one of these implementations over the > other? > > SGI's version of kdb was redesigned some months ago to better handle > SMP, as well as recursion and debugging of kdb itself. Unless David > Mosberger or Stephane Eranian have any objections[*], SGI will take > over kdb for IA64 again. > > [*] Yes David, I _will_ remove the switch_stack change. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64