how to interpret crash?
David Magda
dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca
Thu May 27 16:36:37 PDT 2004
On May 27, 2004, at 18:51, Doug White wrote:
> If you put this line in your kernel config it should generate the
> kernel.debug:
>
> makeoptions DEBUG=-g
Yes, I have it that already.
> You don't need the actual kernel.debug to boot with, just the image
> around
> so when you run gdb -k it can pull the symbols out. Otherwise, the
> installed kernel is stripped. On -CURRENT, there's a
> /sys/$arch/compile/$kernelname.debug that you suck in.
Yes, but I sometimes clean out my compile / object directory and so
when I need the debugging kernel it's not there (and I may have
cvsup'ed my source tree). It would be nice if a debugging kernel is
sitting there beside the kernel that I booted.
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