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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel mode console
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:09:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303170907.GG3883@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c23l34$n46$1@terminus.zytor.com>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:57:24AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com>
> By author:    Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > i have some bandwidth i can dedicate to writting a kernel module that provides 
> > a command interpreter running in kernel space (think of it as the god mode 
> > console in quake). the purpose for this would be primarily aimed at the 
> > kernel developers so they can reach in and grab variables, dump certain 
> > sections of memory, walk memory, dump code segments, dump processes 
> > (including the kernel data structures for them), anything else i/you can 
> > think of. is this a waste of time, or would that get used?
> > 
> 
> Google(kgdb).

Or kdb for that matter.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-03 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03  3:52 kernel mode console Billy Rose
2004-03-03  3:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-03 17:09   ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-03-03 16:49 ` Tim Bird
2004-03-04  4:12   ` Krishnakumar. R
2004-03-05  0:58     ` Billy Rose
2004-03-05  3:20       ` Rob Couto
2004-03-05 11:47       ` John Bradford
     [not found] <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-03-03 17:18 ` Andi Kleen

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