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Subject: Re: kgdb / remote gdb of the kernel?
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
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From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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> In message <199603251521.QAA19245@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> you write:
>> Serial or Ethernet?
>
> Serial, for sure, since you might not even have an ethernet card.

Sure, I had never intended to do *only* Ethernet.

> Ethernet would be cool, though.  NeXTStep does this, (they don't use
> IP, just raw ethernet frames), and I could at least figure out what
> protocol they use if we care about being compatible.
>
> Raw ethernet has the advantage of being easier to implement, but the
> disadvantage of needing to do your debugging from a box on the same
> physical network.

I honestly don't think that the difference between raw Ethernet and
some semblance of IP is the real problem, though if it is, there's no
reason not to write a little forwarding process which runs on another
system on the local net.  Let's see if I get any feedback on how
Tandem did it, though.

Greg