linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

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Message-ID: <489B34BA.4060300@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:45:30 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

Nick Piggin wrote:

> OK thanks for the info. I don't actually know debugger code as I
> said, so I wasn't against merging mdb if it offers things that
> kgdb fundamentally cannot.
> 
> If so, then ensuring clean interfaces indeed would seem like a
> good first step to getting it merged.

The competing implementation is kdb not kgdb. kgdb is just a stub for remote
debugging using gdb. kdb is an in-kernel debugger like the one proposed here.
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