On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:35:20 +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > On Tue Nov 16 10, Alexander Best wrote: >> >> WOW! this is the first time i hear of such a concept. it seems great >> for people like me who are desktop users without any serial/firewire >> consoles or any additional debugging hardware. >> >> is there a way of trying this out somehow? personally i wouldn't need >> the memory dump to work in partitions. i'd simply blug in a blank usb >> stick and have the memory dump dd'ed onto it. i think adding partition >> awareness is not really needed. > > ok i read some more details and i think i figured out how to dump the > memory to a usb stick. question still remains however: will i be able to > use that memory snapshot in kgdb or gdb? >
Probably not. I thought about it a bit more and realized that you will miss state of cpu registers which is rather important. How does debugging over firewire work if it only has access to host RAM ? _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
