On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:53 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> *kdb? it's also enabled by default...  never personally used it thou..*
>
>
> I do not think so, no. Someone on these groups posted about something I
> had never heard about before, so I spent a couple hours googling and
> reading on the subject.
>
> Basically, in make I believe it is an "ARCH" option, that builds the
> kernel as a standalone executable. Which can then be run *somehow* (
> perhaps chroot env  ) on an already running Linux. Something akin perhaps
> to a virtual machine, without the virtual machine.
>
> The idea anyway, is that you could debug a misbehaving kernel, withotu
> completely crashing the system it was running on. Also alleviating the need
> for a remote debug system.
>

Oh that's kexec!

Regards,

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