From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5308 invoked by alias); 15 May 2009 22:25:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 5268 invoked by uid 22791); 15 May 2009 22:25:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-px0-f131.google.com (HELO mail-px0-f131.google.com) (209.85.216.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 May 2009 22:24:59 +0000 Received: by pxi37 with SMTP id 37so1499567pxi.12 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 15:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.120.8 with SMTP id s8mr5694657wac.11.1242426297232; Fri, 15 May 2009 15:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xpjpn (pool-71-111-126-62.ptldor.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.111.126.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k14sm1967581waf.65.2009.05.15.15.24.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 May 2009 15:24:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Caz Yokoyama To: "'Michael Snyder'" Cc: "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" , "'Pedro Alves'" , , , "'Joel Brobecker'" References: <409D09C1E1964C5EAFF5EFBAD6E936ED@xpjpn> <200905152223.58241.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090515213410.GA10064@caradoc.them.org> <8AA4B846934A4A9081F778449B96F416@xpjpn> <4A0DE914.1050800@vmware.com> Subject: RE: symbolic debug of loadable modules with kgdb light Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <63418BCFE251495C93F608A08FA31AD1@xpjpn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4A0DE914.1050800@vmware.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00337.txt.bz2 I have no objection regarding generic way of sending a BREAK. However, I had two reasons to introduce linux-kgdb. 1) Someone suggested me the same several months ago. Nobody implemented. 2) I need some way to specify debugging linux kernel by using kgdb for symbolic debug of loadable modules. -caz -----Original Message----- From: Michael Snyder [mailto:msnyder@vmware.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 3:14 PM To: Caz Yokoyama Cc: 'Daniel Jacobowitz'; 'Pedro Alves'; gdb-patches@sourceware.org; tromey@redhat.com; 'Joel Brobecker' Subject: Re: symbolic debug of loadable modules with kgdb light I think we need a generic way to send a BREAK (whatever that may mean) to the target from the command line. Like maybe a "BREAK" command. Caz Yokoyama wrote: > Yes, that is correct. > -caz > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:34 PM > To: Pedro Alves > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Caz Yokoyama; tromey@redhat.com; 'Joel > Brobecker' > Subject: Re: symbolic debug of loadable modules with kgdb light > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:23:57PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: >> Sounds like you need to fix kgdb instead. Why would it need >> a 'g' on connection? > > BREAK on a serial (or network maybe?) console is magic sysrq; this is > sysrq-g, probably for debuG. >