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SubjectRe: lan based kgdb
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On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:21, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Agreed. But even a suspect debugger is preferable to no debugger at all.
>
> Look, serial ports are becoming obsolete. We (not everybody but many
> people) need kgdb.
>

Machines may not ship with serial ports anymore, but theoretically they
should have debug ports.

(A Debug Port being a 16550 with an arbitrary IO port, an ACPI table
entry, and a connector on the motherboard. There's a spec on the
Microsoft web site with the details, but there's a click-through license
agreement and IANAL, so read at your own risk.)
--
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>

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