Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Wed, 2 May 2001 16:58:16 +0200


On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:16:50AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> My ideal debugger is one that combines the internal knowledge of kdb
> with the source level debugging of gdb. I know how to do this over a
> serial line, finding time to write the code is the problem.

http://pice.sourceforge.net is one approach to it; but it's currently
a bit limited: e.g. ATM UP-i386-2.2 only and somewhat windowish; also the
approach only really works for modules not complete kernel sources unless
you have a *lot* of memory. Still in its limits it works.

-Andi
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