Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:58:48 -0400 "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:09:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > - Is anyone testing the kgdb code in here?
> >
> > Testing, yes. Succeeding, no. It's utterly hosed on SH in its present
> > condition at least. Presumably it's been tested on at least one platform
> > with some measure of success, but it's certainly not mine ;-)
> 
> does kgdb actually have a chance to get merged ?

I was hoping for a 2.6.24 merge.  But I haven't actually looked at it yet. 
Hopefully Jason is planning to get it all out for review soonish.

>  with the history of
> it, i just assumed it was never going in, so we've been using our own
> kgdb patch on Blackfin ... so the version *we have* works great :) but
> if there's a chance of this actually going mainline, we can see about
> testing that version as well ...

Please, do so.

But runtime testing isn't actually the most important thing at this time -
if is doesn't work, well hey, we fix it, easy - we always have bugs.  The
main emphasis right now should be on higher-level design/review/integration
stuff.

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