From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267189AbUHSSd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:33:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267209AbUHSSd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:33:56 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:32519 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267189AbUHSSdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:33:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:33:53 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: jmerkey@comcast.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com Subject: Re: kallsyms 2.6.8 address ordering Message-ID: <20040819193353.A12168@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , jmerkey@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com References: <081920041826.25654.4124F0D700037D32000064362200734748970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <081920041826.25654.4124F0D700037D32000064362200734748970A059D0A0306@comcast.net>; from jmerkey@comcast.net on Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:26:31PM +0000 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:26:31PM +0000, jmerkey@comcast.net wrote: > Yes. > > What would be required? Source code disclosure to a reviewer. MDB is platform independent. and patches in an alternate debugger interface in kdb_main. In includes **NONE** of SGI's source code or Linux kernel source in the MDB core. There is an open source section of the debugger with **ALL** modifications to kdb core files disclosed with the debugger modules. The fact is, I don't even need kdb, but inlcuded it in a mode where folks who wanted to switch between the two debuggers could do so, since a lot of folks wanted to. I do use the serial interface in kdb, which is the only portion. I wrote MANOS with this debugger, and all the low level GDT, IDT, etc. hardware stuff is my own, is vastly superior to what's in kdb. > > DRDOS owns the MDB debugger for Linux now and I maintain it for them -- that's it. I am certain DRDOS would provide any counter-claims with **FACTS** to assertions we are using any of the kdb code improperly. So it works with unpatched kernels?