From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 16:57:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4FB37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539C943F93 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6DNv3aQ021391; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6DNv2XK021390; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:02 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mark Kettenis Message-ID: <20030713235702.GF5952@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Mark Kettenis , marcel@xcllnt.net, current@FreeBSD.org References: <20030711225002.GA71126@ns1.xcllnt.net> <200307121105.h6CB50l1047073@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20030712203930.GA5446@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: current@FreeBSD.org cc: marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: GDB - do we dare? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:57:07 -0000 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 05:57:34PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:39:30 -0700 > From: Marcel Moolenaar > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > o We still have the Alpha gdb -k bug moved over from the 5.1 todo > > list to the 5.2 todo list. I think this is "just" a bug fix. > > > > I'm not really familliar with the support for debugging FreeBSD > > kernels in GDB since that support is not in the FSF tree. Is there > > any chance that this code will be contributed back? This would > > involve a copyright assignment, which could prove to be a major > > obstacle. > > The copyright of our kgdb support is already the FSF. See > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/kvm-fbsd.c > > I'll have to find out whether the paperwork is actually there. As you know I do have paperwork on file, which covers some of the work. The bigger question is will the fuctionality get resistance to being part of the FSF GDB? Can you evaluate the FreeBSD additions from that point of view? > > Interesting. It may even be possible to make gdb 6.0 part of FreeBSD 5.2 > > scheduling wise. Do we need a binutils update? We now have 2.13.2. Please, don't even worry about that. You'll get lost in a non-issue. The real issue is getting a patch that would update our bits to GDB 6.0 -- not the actual integration. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)