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Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:33:48 -0800
From:   Jordan Hand <jorhand@...ux.microsoft.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jason.wessel@...driver.com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org,
        dianders@...omium.org
Subject: net/kgdb: Taking another crack at implementing kgdboe

Hey folks,

I have been scouring patches from around 2005-2008 related to kgdboe
(kgdb over ethernet) and I am interested in taking a shot at getting it
into the mainline kernel.

I found an implementation from Tom Rini in 2005[1] and an out of tree
implementation[2].

So I have a couple questions before I dive in:

1. Is anyone actively working on this? From lkml archives it appears no
but I thought I'd ask.
2. Does anyone have an objection to this feature? From my reading it
seems that the reason it was never merged was due to reliability issues
but I just want to double check that people don't see some larger issue.

I don't have 100% of my time to devote to this so it will likely take me
a while but this is something I would like to see in the upstream kernel
so I thought I'd give it a try.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/29/321
[2] https://github.com/sysprogs/kgdboe