KDB_TRACE in GENERIC

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:49:26 +0300
Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> I propose to add the following options into GENERIC (perhaps only i386 and amd64):
> 
> options         KDB
> options         KDB_TRACE
> options         KDB_UNATTENDED
> options		SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY  # <- not sure about his one
> 
> This would increase kernel size only by a fraction, would not result in any POLA
> violations (KDB_UNATTENDED, SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY) and would provide a useful service.
> 
> Currently we get many panic reports that are almost impossible to analyze
> because there is no stack trace.  Especially this is true for panics at
> installation time, when people use GENERIC from release media and do not have
> ability to try a custom kernel.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

Seems like a good idea to me.

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Gary Jennejohn (gj@)