From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 08:10:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 08:09:54 -0400 Received: from ppp0.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.3]:63237 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 08:09:48 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: kdb@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kdb wishlist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:09:42 +1000 Message-ID: <23270.989323782@ocs3.ocs-net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is part of my kdb wishlist, does anybody fancy writing the code to add any of these features? It would be a nice project for anybody wanting to start on the kernel. Replies to kdb@oss.sgi.com please. Current patches at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ * Change kdb invocation key from ^A to ^X^X^X within 3 seconds. ^A is used by emacs, bash, minicom etc. * Command history. Handle up/down/left/right/delete keys. Each kdba_io routine is responsible for recognising the arch specific keys, with a common history and editting routine. * Clean up repeating commands. Pressing enter at the kdb prompt repeats the previous command, no matter what the previous command was. Some commands it makes no sense to repeat (bp in particular), for other commands you want to repeat the command but without the parameter (md in particular). * Embed width and count options in md and mm commands. Some hardware requires that accesses be a specific width, this can be achieved by setting BYTESPERWORD but it is awkward. We want md1 to read one byte, md2, md4, md8 commands. All can have a count field, e.g. md1c8 reads 8 bytes one at a time. mm1, mm2, mm4, mm8 to set memory no count field.