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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:42:41 +0300
From:      Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Debugging
Message-ID:  <16416.52385.492153.911070@laputa.namesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040203.132334.88004112.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <401FD0C6.3000606@spinnakernet.com> <20040203.132334.88004112.imp@bsdimp.com>

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M. Warner Losh writes:
 > In message: <401FD0C6.3000606@spinnakernet.com>
 >             Sridhar Chellappa <schellap@spinnakernet.com> writes:
 > : How do we debug a freeBSD kernel ? Do we have something similar to 
 > : "KGDB" that linux offers ?
 > 
 > Ironically, we've had kgdb for a number of years longer than Linux.
 > Actually, it is ironic that linux has a in-kernel debugger given
 > Linus' strong resistance to it for years.

As a matter of fact, kgdb is not part of the "mainline" kernel
maintained by Linus. It is available as a separate patch(-set),
included, for example, into -mm series.

 > 
 > There's also ddb that can be used for a lower level of debugging w/o
 > the need for a serial console.
 > 
 > Warner

Nikita.



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