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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
	Clyde Griffin <CGRIFFIN@novell.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506240750.03736.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BB932D.9050808@utah-nac.org>

On Friday 24 June 2005 00:59, jmerkey wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>It's a GBD replacement and is not fully open source.
> >
> >What is not open source in it ()?
> >
> >>KDB is at present more capable. It has a lot of promise, but it does not
> >>have the all the architectural
> >>features necessary to replace either KDB or GDB at present.
> >
> >While I never used or saw kdb, I'd be curious about what you immediately
> > saw missing...
>
> 1. No back trace
> 2. Doesn't run standalone fully embeded in the kernel
> 3. Not fully open source (since it's not embeded in the kernel)
> 4. IA64 doesn't really matter, since IA64 is basically dead anyway
> 5. No advanced recursive descent parser for conditional breakpoints

This is more or less completely inaccurate.

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-24 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 22:54 Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD) Clyde Griffin
2005-06-23 21:14 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-23 23:43 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24  0:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24  0:35   ` John W. Linville
2005-06-24  0:17     ` jmerkey
2005-06-24  1:56       ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-24  0:31         ` jmerkey
2005-06-24  6:21       ` Jan Beulich
2005-06-24  4:59         ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 11:50           ` Chris Mason [this message]
2005-06-24 15:55             ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 18:16               ` Chris Mason
2005-06-24 17:15                 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24 19:29         ` Lee Revell
2005-06-24 19:49           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24  0:46     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-24  1:36 ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-24  2:15 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-27 18:14 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-24  6:29 Jan Beulich
2005-06-24  7:38 Jan Beulich
2005-06-24  6:44 ` jmerkey
2005-06-24  8:26 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-24 12:02   ` Rik Van Riel
2005-06-27  6:46     ` Jan Beulich
2005-06-24 18:03 Clyde Griffin

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