dwight at supercomputer.org wrote: > For those of you who follow Fedora, you'll know that F9 came out a > couple of hours ago. I've put a first pass of a port of kdb to F9 up > for general availability, and have announced this to the general > Fedora list. Since this might also be of interest here, I'm > reposting the announcement below. > > It's been years since kdb was available for a Fedora kernel. That > situation has now been corrected.
Thanks! Hmm, any plan to provide ia64 port as well? ;) Cheers, - jay > > -dwight- > > > ---- Original message --- > I've ported kdb over to Fedora 9 and am making this available to > those who might find it useful with today's release of F9. > > kdb is the kernel debugger from SGI, from > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/ > It's not gkdb nor kgdb, nor kbd. > > This port is preliminary; more changes are required. Nonetheless, > since it's starting to work, and it might be helpful to others, > I'm making it available before it has been fully tested. I.e. I'm > taking the approach of "Publish early, publish often". Feedback is > appreciated. > > NOTE WELL: Getting this to run on Fedora 9 has been a non-trivial > effort, due to the differences between the stock kernel.org kernel > and F9. > > Also note that, since F9 was only released about an hour ago, I'm > still downloading all the ISO's like everyone else. I.e. I haven't > had time to test this properly on a complete F9 system, only some > testing on the F9 pre system. Nonetheless, I'll be updating these > patches until they are well enough along to push upstream. > > A copy of the patches, and instructions on how to apply them to > the F9 kernel source, can be found at: > http://www.supercomputer.org/public/fedora/f9/kdb > > See the README file there for directions. > > -dwight- > --------------------------- > Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe. --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
