Re: [GSoC] Remote kernel debugging over Ethernet

[Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev%dir.bg@localhost>]

Jordan Gordeev wrote:

> Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:01:21PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I've been looking at the list of suggested ideas for Google Summer 
> > > of Code and one project caught my attention:
> > >
> > >   "KGDB over Ethernet"
> > >   
> >
> >
> > i'd be much in favour of this :) Firewire is also nice, but i dont 
> > know how
> > long firewire will still exist. USB3 might be an option but thats not 
> > even
> > close to existence. Serial debugging is nice but pretty slow and not 
> > really
> > suited for stepwise debugging.
> >
> > With regards,
> > Reinoud
> >
> >  
> I believe people want it.
> However, I'm still looking for an answer to the question about the 
> implementation approach.
> What should a student do, if he wants to work over the summer towards 
> a goal of producing a functional remote over-Ethernet kernel debugger? 
> Write special ipkdb drivers for all the NIC's he has in his posession?
> I, personally, have no experience in writing device drivers, and I 
> find fighting with hardware bugs and engineering braindamage not 
> particularly attractive.
I forgot to mention the lack of documentation too.