Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/9] Add basic Linux kernel support

Kamil Rytarowski
2018-03-13T14:09:33Z

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On 12.03.2018 16:31, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Implement the basic infrastructure and functionality to allow Linux kernel
> debugging with GDB. This contains handling of kernel symbols and data
> structures as well as a simple target_ops to hook into GDB. For the code
> to work architectures must provide an implementation for the virtual
> methods in linux_kernel_ops.
>
> For simplicity this patch only supports static targets, i.e. core dumps.
> Support for live debugging will be provided in a separate patch.
>

What's wrong with kgdb? It works well on NetBSD for alive and dead
kernels since 90ties.

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