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Date:      Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:07:42 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How to get better debugging for the kernel.
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On Saturday, August 13, 2016 11:55:03 AM Gordon Ross wrote:
> I heard a rumor someone might be working on a port of illumos "mdb".
> Anyone know if that's true, and how far along it went?
> 
> We depend heavily upon this tool for production support;
> so much that I'm not sure how we'd live without it.

I have been (slowly) working on a port of mdb to FreeBSD for debugging
kernels.  It does not support userland debugging, only live kernels
and kernel crash dumps.  What do you use mdb for?

-- 
John Baldwin



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