From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264974AbUBDXmn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:42:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264365AbUBDXlj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:41:39 -0500 Received: from host-65-117-135-105.timesys.com ([65.117.135.105]:20905 "EHLO kartuli.timesys") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264855AbUBDXkI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:40:08 -0500 Message-ID: <402182B8.7030900@timesys.com> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:39:36 -0500 From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Amit S. Kale" Subject: Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 References: <20040204230133.GA8702@elf.ucw.cz> <20040204152137.500e8319.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040204152137.500e8319.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>It seems that some kgdb support is in 2.6.2-linus: >> >> > >Lots of architectures have had in-kernel kgdb support for a long time. >Just none of the three which I use :( > >I wouldn't support inclusion of i386 kgdb until it has had a lot of >cleanup, possible de-featuritisification and some thought has been applied >to splitting it into arch and generic bits. It's quite a lot of work. > > Amit has started at least the third activity--he has split much of kgdb into arch and generic bits. Could you elaborate a little on the first two? What major kinds of cleanup are we talking about? Style issues? What features (or classes of features) do you find excessive? Would it be sufficient to add a few config items to control subfeatures of kgdb? These are not idle questions. If the amount of work to get it ready for acceptance is tractable, I know a company that may be willing to pay to have the work done. >- >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/ > >