From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263254AbVFXLwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:52:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263258AbVFXLwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:52:30 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:64400 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263254AbVFXLuL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:11 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: jmerkey Subject: Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Jan Beulich , Christoph Lameter , Clyde Griffin , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <42BBC297020000780001D4A5@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> <42BB932D.9050808@utah-nac.org> In-Reply-To: <42BB932D.9050808@utah-nac.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506240750.03736.mason@suse.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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