kgdb with 2.4.20pre7 kernel on 405 target

Matt Porter porter at cox.net
Wed Sep 18 04:32:50 EST 2002


On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:35:18AM +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> on the target. The kernel is exported from bitkeeper this morning.

<snip>

> What does this mean ? From now on I cannot interupt the target.
>
> Is this a problem with kgdb ?

In 2_4_devel, the 4xx debug infrastructure is in the middle of a
change which moves DBCR state from pt_regs to thread struct.
Without DBCR being context switched, anything using the 4xx
debug exception will be adversely affected.  This includes
kgdb and ptrace.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
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