linux-kernel - Re: kgdboe?

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Message-Id: <200805061005.13669.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 10:05:13 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: kgdboe?

On Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:16 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > So when will we see kgdboe or some other way of getting gdb to connect
> > to the target over ethernet upstream?
>
> i think the proper way would be to extend the kgdb-over-console (kgdboc)
> concept and make it easy to utilize the existing netconsole code via
> KGDB. This brings nice synergy: netconsole is utilized by other debug
> infrastructure as well so anything that supports netconsole would
> automatically support KGDB as well. I dont really like the old kgdboe
> approach from a design POV as it created a parallel infrastructure for
> special-purpose kgdb IO.

When I looked at the sources right after it was merged this seemed like the 
preferred approach, but I couldn't find any evidence of anyone working on the 
port...  Are you aware of any?

Jesse
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