Anyway, this will drive me nuts ( short trip ) until I figure it out / remember. As it seemed like a really cool / useful / just-the-sort-of-thing I'd love to toy with.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:53 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. > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:35 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Isn't there some new fandangled way to debug the kernel by running it >> as an >> > executable. As in Linux running it's self ? For the life of me, I can >> not >> > recall the correct term . . . >> >> kdb? it's also enabled by default... never personally used it thou.. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
