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Re: Anybody know whether or not kdb supports x86_64(for instance, ia32e)

To: sdake@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Anybody know whether or not kdb supports x86_64(for instance, ia32e) platform now?Thanx.
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:58:54 +1100
Cc: jfv@xxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chen, Yukun" <yukun.chen@xxxxxxxxx>, kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:33:37 PDT." <1099438417.5256.144.camel@persist.az.mvista.com>
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:33:37 -0700, 
Steven Dake <sdake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Keith & Jack,
>
>I am going to backport the kdb x86_64 patch to the 2.4 kernel.  Any tips
>on what might not work with the kdb 4.3 patch (last 2.4 kernel patch)
>with 4.4 x86_64 backported?

The main differences between v4.3 and v4.4 (IOW why I bumped the version number)

* v4.4 no longer prints all tasks by default.  It suppresses Idle and
  system daeMon tasks, they are assumed to be irrelevant to most
  debugging.  Should not affect any architecture.

* The serial console sequence changed from control-A to escape-KDB.
  Should not affect any architecture unless you were already using a
  different sequence.

* Make set NOSECT=1 the default.  2.6 kernels do not have the data
  required for useful section data, 2.4 kernels still do.

* Add standard archkdb commands.

* Big clean up and reorganisation of include/linux/{kdb,kdbprivate}.h,
  with adjustments to include/asm-*/{kdb,kdbprivate}.h to suit.

* Move bfd.h and ansidecl.h from arch/$(ARCH)/kdb to
  include/asm-$(ARCH) and remove -I arch/$(ARCH)/kdb from Makefiles.

* Move kdb_{get,put}userarea_size definitions to linux/kdb.h.

The last three are the ones most likely to impact your backport.

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