From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
Clyde Griffin <CGRIFFIN@novell.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506240750.03736.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BB932D.9050808@utah-nac.org>
On Friday 24 June 2005 00:59, jmerkey wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>It's a GBD replacement and is not fully open source.
> >
> >What is not open source in it ()?
> >
> >>KDB is at present more capable. It has a lot of promise, but it does not
> >>have the all the architectural
> >>features necessary to replace either KDB or GDB at present.
> >
> >While I never used or saw kdb, I'd be curious about what you immediately
> > saw missing...
>
> 1. No back trace
> 2. Doesn't run standalone fully embeded in the kernel
> 3. Not fully open source (since it's not embeded in the kernel)
> 4. IA64 doesn't really matter, since IA64 is basically dead anyway
> 5. No advanced recursive descent parser for conditional breakpoints
This is more or less completely inaccurate.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-23 22:54 Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD) Clyde Griffin
2005-06-23 21:14 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-23 23:43 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 0:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24 0:35 ` John W. Linville
2005-06-24 0:17 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 1:56 ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-24 0:31 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 6:21 ` Jan Beulich
2005-06-24 4:59 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 11:50 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2005-06-24 15:55 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 18:16 ` Chris Mason
2005-06-24 17:15 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 19:29 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-24 19:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24 0:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24 1:36 ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-24 2:15 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-27 18:14 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-24 6:29 Jan Beulich
2005-06-24 7:38 Jan Beulich
2005-06-24 6:44 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 8:26 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-24 12:02 ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-27 6:46 ` Jan Beulich
2005-06-24 18:03 Clyde Griffin
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