Re: Is there a kgdb for Opteron for linux-2.6?

[George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:42:03PM -0400, Jim Houston wrote:
> 
>>Hi Andi,
>>
>>I found your kgdb for x86_64 for linux-2.4.20 and I'm wondering if 
>>there is a version for the 2.6 tree?
>>
>>If it doesn't exist, I'm thinking of merging your changes with the
>>current i386 kgdb from Andrew Morton's tree.
> 
> 
> There is no 2.6 version of kgdb currently. The 2.4 version also has some
> problems that makes it better to not use it at all.
> 
> My plan was to do a fresh port from the code in -mm* and get rid of 
> many of the ugly hacks in 2.4. Doing this properly requires adding
> dwarf2 annotation to entry.S and other assembly files. This would
> allow to get rid of the "interrupt threads" hack in 2.4 because gdb
> could directly backtrace through exception/interrupts.

I see that Andrew has not picked up my latest kgdb.  In the latest version I 
have the dwarf2 stuff working in entry.S.  Just ask, off list.

-g
> 
> -Andi
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