On Tuesday 13 March 2007 00:47, Jason Wessel wrote: > Greetings one and all KGDB folks. > > I would very much like to make an attempt to get KGDB into the mainline > kernel, as well as fix a number of defects and add some features which > have long had in my development version of KGDB. > > I believe that it will go something like this. > 1) Port the current patches into the 2.6.21rcX kernel > 2) I will start merging the numerous fixes I have and > post them here for review incrementally. > 3) Submit the KGDB core to the mainline > At that point it might move to be a git stream on > kernel.org.
Excellent! > 4) Look at some new feature work and integration > of features brewing in my development branch. These are most welcome, though kernel gurus usually prefer minimal stuff. > > To start this off I have ported everything except for the sh-lite.patch > (since I have no SH toolchain etc...) and the cfi annotations patch. It > was not clear to me that we need this or not at this point. It's not strictly needed, though it makes backtraces through do_IRQ work (do they work now?) Thanks a lot for starting this effort. -Amit > > I have checked the work into a branch on the cvs server called > linux2_6_21_uprev. This is the place I will continue to update until > the mainline work is in. > > Let us use this mailing list to coordinate the work of sending KGDB on > over to the mainline, prior to posting on lkml. The first cut of the > patches can be obtained with: > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kgdb co > -r linux2_6_21_uprev -P kgdb-2 > > Thanks, > Jason. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Kgdb-bugreport mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
