I've been trying to update kdb for ia64 2.6, based on Xavier Bru's kdb 4.3 patches to 2.5.72 at http://www.bullfreeware.com/linux/kdb/.
One problem I hit was that the 'ps' command would always oops on an
SMP machine, because of trying to read information about nonexistant
processors. This patch fixes that.
It may not be an optimal fix; I am going to look a little more at how NR_CPUS is used here.
I can't believe I'm the only person to hit this, so perhaps I started from a patch that was too old?
You might also want to check out Jim Huston's patches at: http://www.ccur.com/rt_oss.asp
I don't think he did the ia64 part, but his base ia32 works very nice on 2.5.73. I believe Xavier & Jim had talked at one point about merging their effort, but I have no idea how far that got. Now that 2.6-test is out, perhaps some consideration might be given to merging these patches back into the kdb sources?
Cheers, Nicholas
