Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Re: 2.6.6-mm3

Amit S. Kale
2004-05-18T13:47:07Z

On Monday 17 May 2004 11:26 pm, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:38:13AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:30:25PM -0400, Robert Picco wrote:
> > > Tom Rini wrote:
> > > >On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:55:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6/2
> > > >>.6.6-mm3/
> > > >>
> > > >>- A few VM changes, getting things synced up better with Andrea's
> > > >> work.
> > > >>
> > > >>- A new kgdb stub, for ia64 (what happened to the grand unified kgdb
> > > >> project?)
> > > >
> > > >No one asked the ia64 folks who did that work "Hey, have you looked at
> > > >the grand unified kgdb project on kgdb.sf.net ?" would be my guess.
> > > >
> > > >Having said that, if you're willing to go with a slightly late
> > > >initalizing (I saw part of the early_param work get dropped again I
> > > >think, so I'm gonna guess you don't wanna deal with that again yet)
> > > > KGDB for i386 and PPC32, I can whip something up vs 2.6.6 in a day or
> > > > so.
> > >
> > > I did the ia64 port and started with Andrew's 2.6.4-mm2 i386 sources.
> > > I'm assuming the long term strategy is to move to a unified kgdb being
> > > done on sourceforge? If so, I'll take a look at this.
> >
> > My long term strategy is to get everyone using the version on
> > sourceforge that splits out the common portions of the stub from the
> > arch-specific portions. If you could go ahead and get ia64 working on
> > this as well I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > Right now it's still vs 2.6.5, but I'm going to try and fix that today
> > or tomorrow to be vs 2.6.6.
>
> OK, I've updated things to 2.6.6.

That's great! Thanks.
-Amit