From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261791AbTJ1Wrm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:47:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261793AbTJ1Wrm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:47:42 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:34543 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261791AbTJ1Wrj (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:47:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9EF206.1040105@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:47:34 -0800 From: George Anzinger Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Jim Houston , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is there a kgdb for Opteron for linux-2.6? References: <1066678923.1007.164.camel@new.localdomain> <20031024135112.GE2286@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20031024135112.GE2286@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml