From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 20 17:23:21 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 3043D37B405 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D685178306; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:53:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:53:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet? Message-ID: <20020221115314.W65817@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020221113151.T65817@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 17:03:38 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: >>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> That depends on where they put it. If it depends on I/OKit then we >>>> won't be able to use it easily I figure. >>> >>> yes but we might as well be protocol compatible if possible :-) >>> If only to re-use what they did in gdb :-) >> >> No question. But protocols are a separate issue. >> >> One of the most amusing things I discovered recently is that you can >> use a FreeBSD gdb to kernel debug Linux :-) > > you mean they use the same protocol? That's the obvious conclusion. Of course, Linux doesn't have serial gdb by default; you have to piece it together from all over the net. 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