Source level debugging with kdb

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:47 -0700, 
"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover at intel.com> wrote:
>Source-level debugging would be very cool.
>
>BTW, can you describe more as to why there would be the
>only-over-serial-port limitation? If it were possible to have source debug
>for only a few modules (and the rest only symbols), that would fit in the
>kernel image, but still not be too big...

Source debug information is not stored in the running kernel, it is
stored in vmlinux.  The size of the running kernel is not the
constraint, it is gdb's need to do I/O to access vmlinux.  kdb does not
allow I/O so gdb/vmlinux must be on a second machine.