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