http://kerneltrap.org/taxonomy/term/649/0 en-local http://kerneltrap.org/node/2263 <div class="taxonomy-images"></div><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>It was recently pointed out that the stock 2.6.2 kernel contains in-kernel support for kgdb for some architectures, but not i386. 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton replied, "<i>lots of architectures have had in-kernel kgdb support for a long time. Just none of the three which I use :(</i>" As to getting kgdb for i386 into the kernel, he explained some reluctance:</p> <blockquote><p>"I wouldn't support inclusion of i386 kgdb until it has had a lot of cleanup, possible de-featuritisification and some thought has been applied to splitting it into arch and generic bits. It's quite a lot of work."</p></blockquote> <p>It was quickly pointed out that Amit Kale has done much of this work with his version of kgdb, available <a href="http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/" target="new">here</a>. Andrew replied, "<i>Look, there's a lot of interest in this and I of course am fully supportive. If someone could send me Amit's patchset when they think I should test it, I could then talk about it more usefully.</i>" Read on for much of the <a href="http://tux.org/lkml/" target="new">lkml</a> thread, including specifics reasons why and why not to include kgdb in the stock 2.6 kernel.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p><a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/2263" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://kerneltrap.org/node/2263#comments 2.6.2 Amit Kale Andrew Morton kgdb