Hello, I wrote:
>>> While this doesn't seem to be an issue with the 2.6.21 CVS branch,
>>>i386.patch looks there starnge indeed.
>>>It doesn't look like it has the *complete* h/w breakpoint support and
>>>it doesn't enable KGDB_ARCH_HAS_HARDWARE_BREAKPOINTS option. Well,
>>>this option looks a bit strange as well as it has a help text
>>>suggesting it should be selectable (and arch/i386/kernel/kgdb.c also
>>>suggests it) but it's *not* selectable. Looks messy. :-]
>>I had merged the i386.patch from the master tree and fixed it so it
>>would compile in the 2.6.21 uprev branch. Upon inspecting the code, it
>>does look like it probably has chunks missing.
> Yes, there's not actual writes to the debug registers...
Well, as it turned out, KGDB was broken WRT h/w breakpoints anyway, so
nobody ever cared it seems. :-)
>>Where is the appropriate source of the patch? It should be easy enough
>>to re-merge, if it can be located. The version in HEAD on source forge
>>looked the same as the version in the git master tree.
> Well, i386-core.patch in the former Tom's master tree does have some h/w
I meant to say i386-lite.patch. :-)
> breakpoint code -- looks like it hasn't been clearly separated.
>>FYI: the fix for the config is this, and I'll go ahead and commit it,
>>until I hear back about a better source for the hw breakpoint patch.
>>Jason.
WBR, Sergei
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