Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 15:12:21 EST


Stefan Richter wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is there work underway to get kdb merged? (I'm just asking because I
> don't know; I personally don't need kdb nor mdb.)

KDB still exists in patches but the merge effort was given up when Linus
stated that he did not want a kernel debugger. No problem to start merge
attempts again AFAICT. Jay?

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