From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 20 16: 5:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E3937B404 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:05:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 06ADD78306; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:35:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:35:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "George V. Neville-Neil" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet? Message-ID: <20020221103534.G65817@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200202200536.VAA258019@meer.meer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202200536.VAA258019@meer.meer.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 19 February 2002 at 21:36:25 -0800, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Now that Luigi has put in polling support for some ethernet drivers > I was wondering how much work it would be to make the remote kernel debugging > run over the ethernet. I have worked on systems like this before (it's the > reason > I did polling network device drivers in Wind River's VxWorks) but it depends > on a debugging system that has the ability to have its back end swapped out. > > Who would I talk to about how kernel debugging works at the > lowest layers right now? Which source files should I look at first. I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic at the BSDCon last week. Apparently Darwin already has this functionality, so I suppose you'd like to take a look at it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message