On Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:15:50 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git
>
> Find the shortlog attached below.
>
> Most of the changes we have described here:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/21/230
>
> It's not a small merge, it consists of 908 commits from 96 individual
> arch/x86 developers (!):
>
> 671 files changed, 42791 insertions(+), 38967 deletions(-)
>
> so here are a few highlevel comments as well, in addition to the
> shortlog:
>
> - a number of core files are changed as well: most notably percpu,
> debugging details, timers, the firewire remote debugging patch and ...
> the KGDB remote debugging stub in kernel/kgdb.c.
>
> - we tested KGDB to be merge-worthy within the x86 architecture (the
> only supported architecture for now) and it's better to have
> kernel/kgdb.c than arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c. The code is reasonably
> clean and the user-space exposure is small - the only real exposure is
> the decades-old remote GDB protocol. We are happy to fix up any
> further cleanliness comments that people might have - but we really
> wanted to start somewhere and get this thing moving. As an added
> bonus: finally a kernel debugger that can be read without puking too
> much ;-) [anyone remember KDB?]
>
The x86 tree was merged several times, but I don't see kgdb included in
latest mainline -git.
So just one question, will it be included or no?
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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