Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> writes:

> I tried to get DRI to work on macppc ( iBook G4 / Radeon ) didn't get
> anywhere though, it's kind of hard to debug kernel panics that happen
> while X is running without a serial console.

Then how about porting FreeBSD's code which allows to use Firewire
ports to access a remote system's memory? :-)

They even seem to have some GDB support for that.

See the following reference starting at page 44:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/Debug-tutorial/tutorial.pdf

Regards,
 Aymeric