* Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> [2010-07-12 22:59:05]:

> > When I had posted a prototype of a gdbstub which Frank and I had
> > worked on.  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/30/173, Peter and Ingo
> > showed a preference for a combined gdbstub in kernel, i.e kgdb and the
> > newer stub should use only one stub in kernel. Do we have plans to
> > handle that?
> 
> Their actual idea there largely represents a misunderstanding of the
> problem space.  But regardless, it's a distraction from the prototype
> work that Oleg is doing now.  The actual possibilities for code sharing
> between kgdb and something at all like what we're doing now are quite
> small.  It's just not a problem at all to get prototyping progress done
> with a new implementation of the fairly trivial gdb remote protocol
> decoder, and contemplate consolidation later on.

Agree, my concern was that if they keep repeating it after we have
done the prototyping. Yes, that shouldnt stop us from prototyping.


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Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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