From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264473AbUBRNQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:16:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264506AbUBRNQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:16:10 -0500 Received: from svr44.ehostpros.com ([66.98.192.92]:48564 "EHLO svr44.ehostpros.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264473AbUBRNQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:16:05 -0500 From: "Amit S. Kale" Organization: EmSysSoft To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/6] A different KGDB stub Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:45:01 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Andrew Morton , Tom Rini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KGDB bugreports , Andi Kleen , George Anzinger , Jim Houston , Matt Mackall References: <20040217220236.GA16881@smtp.west.cox.net> <200402181026.29813.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <20040218125647.GA4706@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040218125647.GA4706@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402181845.01628.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr44.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - emsyssoft.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 6:26 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > The following is my next attempt at a different KGDB stub > > > > > for your tree > > > > > > > > Is this the patch which everyone agrees on? > > > > > > It is based on Amit's version, so I think answer is "yes". I certainly > > > like this one. > > > > I don't agree. I did a few more cleanups after Andi expressed concerns > > over globals kgdb_memerr and debugger_memerr_expected. > > > > I liked Pavel's approach. Let's first get a minimal kgdb stub into > > mainline kernel. Even this much is going to involve some effort. We can > > merge other features later. > > > > Let's create a cvs tree at kgdb.sourceforge.net for kgdb components to be > > pushed int mainline kernel. This split is to keep current kgdb > > unaffected. People who are already using it won't be affected. > > I do not think we want separate CVS tree. > > What about simply splitting core.patch into core-lite.patch and > core.patch, maybe do the same with i386 patch, and be done with that? > [We do not have enough people for a fork, I think]. Agreed. Let's create core-lite.patch and i386-lite.patch It makes it somewhat difficult to maintain them, but should be easier than maintaining a separate CVS tree. > > Hopefully soon after that *-lite is merged, so it disappears, and > stuff is easy once again. Yes. -- Amit Kale EmSysSoft (http://www.emsyssoft.com) KGDB: Linux Kernel Source Level Debugger (http://kgdb.sourceforge.net)