Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:59:23 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make elf release Message-ID: <199810132359.HAA02821@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:24:26 %2B0100." <3623548A.E4A9FE0F@tdx.co.uk>
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Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
>
> Edwin Culp wrote:
>
> > > I know that's one of the reasons why I've left my system running a.out ke
rnels
> > > at the moment... (and I at least hope it's a good reason ;-)
> > >
> > > Karl
> >
> > The wonderful part of it is that I haven't had anything to debug :-) What
% of
> > the folks running current/beta debug their kernels? The way to find the p
roblems
> > is to have more people using it in its most complete form. IMO.
>
> Hmmm.. Well if I'm right about not being able to debug LDK's with an ELF
> kernel, I have to keep my kernel a.out... An LKM I'm betaing has a few
> problems, which means it's gotta be debug(able)...
Umm, it's the other way around.. DDB can't see a.out LKM's for debugging.
DDB *can* see both a.out and elf KLD modules. KLD modules are the first
time that DDB has worked with modular kernels.
It's GDB that is the problem - it can't see KLD modules. Mind you, it
can't see LKM's either.
> Karl
>
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Cheers,
-Peter
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