From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Rabson Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:02:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] use of gdb for ia64 kernel debug 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 Mon, 29 Apr 2002, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:33:37 -0500, Ray Bryant said: > > Ray> Is is possible to use an IA32 system as a gdb host and run a > Ray> remote debugging session on an IA64 box (e. g. a Big Sur)? > > You need a gdb stub in the kernel for doing that. I seem to recall > someone wrote such a stub for FreeBSD (or was it NetBSD)? If so, you > could use that as a starting point. There is a 'stub of a stub' in the FreeBSD-current kernel but it certainly isn't functional on ia64. I don't yet use gdb for kernel debugging on FreeBSD. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160