Newbie question

[Vishwas Raman]

Hello all,

I am writing in the hope that I will get answers to a few questions that 
I have.

First up, I am extremely new with kdb and started playing with it just a 
couple of days back.

This mailing list's archives maintained by sgi do not work. All the 
links in the archives page lead me to a page not found page. Can I get 
hold of the archives someplace else? If not, can I request sgi to please 
fix the problem and let users see the archives, before they want to mail 
their questions to this list.

Now my actual question. I am working with a 2.4.20 kernel on a red hat 8 
box. I downloaded the corresponding kdb patches and applied them on a 
clean kernel source tree. I then configured the kernel and turned on the 
"Built-in kernel debugger support" and the "Compile the kernel with 
frame pointers" options. This in effect has turned on the CONFIG_KDB and 
the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER flags in the .config file. I was able to build 
and install that kernel with no problems.

I then start kdb in a virtual terminal and started playing around with 
the various commands. One of the commands I tried was "md".

 > md printk 1
0xc01173c0 57e58955 ec8035356 2ee0a120 c085c032 and some junk after this

I am just wondering what the junk is. I thought there should be only 5 
entries per row. why is the junk occuring? Is it some option that I have 
not set correctly while setting up kdb?

I would appreciate any help... thanks.

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Vishwas Raman
Software Engineer, Eternal Systems, Inc,
5290 Overpass Rd, Bldg D, Santa Barbara. CA 93111
Email: vishwas at eternal-systems.com
Tel:   (805) 696-9051 x246
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