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Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/9] Add basic Linux kernel support

From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54 at gmx dot com>
To: Philipp Rudo <prudo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Cc: Omair Javaid <omair dot javaid at linaro dot org>, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>, arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:08:32 +0100
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/9] Add basic Linux kernel support
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References: <20180312153115.47321-1-prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180312153115.47321-5-prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 12.03.2018 16:31, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Implement the basic infrastructure and functionality to allow Linux kernel
> debugging with GDB.  This contains handling of kernel symbols and data
> structures as well as a simple target_ops to hook into GDB.  For the code
> to work architectures must provide an implementation for the virtual
> methods in linux_kernel_ops.
> 
> For simplicity this patch only supports static targets, i.e. core dumps.
> Support for live debugging will be provided in a separate patch.
> 


What's wrong with kgdb? It works well on NetBSD for alive and dead
kernels since 90ties.

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