Subject: Re: Kernel Debugging / kgdb support
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/13/2000 11:16:04
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:05:44 +0100
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> > It is possible to debug kernel crash dumps w/ gdb, though it can't
> > backtrace over trap frames properly (gdb doesn't understand them).
>
> Is there hope of this being fixed eventually, or are the trap frames
> processor-variant-specific (which would make this more difficult, I
> assume)?
It's possible to fix; look at alpha/alpha/db_trace.c. Someone just has
to do it.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>