Remote gdb broken in -CURRENT?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 3 00:59:11 PST 2004


On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 21:32:01 -0500, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 05:55, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Is anybody currently using remote gdb kernel debugging in -CURRENT?  I
>> tried yesterday (embarrassingly, during my kernel debug tutorial), and
>> it looks as if things are broken.
>>
>> Specifically, I was doing it in conjunction with firewire.  The kernel
>> was built with 'options GDB', and it showed that the corresponding gdb
>> functions were included, but the sysctl debug.kdb.available shows only
>> ddb.  I did a bit of looking around for what might have caused it, but
>> wasn't successful.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Link dcons directly into the kernel.

That's not the problem.  dcons works fine.  As I said, it's gdb, not
firewire.

> ( Does not work as a module. I also link in firewire and
> dcons_crom).

I don't know what your problem is, but it's a different one.  I'll be
home on Monday and will be able to pay more attention to the issue.

Greg
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