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.
>
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