On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:54 AM, Il Ka <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am also interested in kernel debugging. > > but we do support running gdb inside a system against its running kernel > Thank you for this recipe, but is it true that live debug does not work for > some cases? > You can't set break point in wsconsole and tty and debug them nor you can > debug kernel that > is frozen, and it seems that remote debug > (like http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/kgdb.html) > is not supported by obsd, right? >
Correct. > Is it because of security reasons? > No one was using it, it got in the way of development that was in progress, and none of the developers was interested in fixing it. If someone wants it and can keep it from being in the way of other work, then some form of it could come back in, but if it would just decay into an impediment then that would be a waste of time. Philip Guenther
