kdb available for F9 (Fedora 9)

[Jay Lan]

dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> For those of you who follow Fedora, you'll know that F9 came out a 
> couple of hours ago. I've put a first pass of a port of kdb to F9 up 
> for general availability, and have announced this to the general 
> Fedora list. Since this might also be of interest here, I'm 
> reposting the announcement below.
> 
> It's been years since kdb was available for a Fedora kernel. That 
> situation has now been corrected.

Thanks!

Hmm, any plan to provide ia64 port as well? ;)

Cheers,
 - jay


> 
>    -dwight-
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ---
> I've ported kdb over to Fedora 9 and am making this available to
> those who might find it useful with today's release of F9.
> 
> kdb is the kernel debugger from SGI, from 
>         http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/
> It's not gkdb nor kgdb, nor kbd.
> 
> This port is preliminary; more changes are required. Nonetheless, 
> since it's starting to work, and it might be helpful to others, 
> I'm making it available before it has been fully tested. I.e. I'm 
> taking the approach of "Publish early, publish often". Feedback is 
> appreciated.
> 
> NOTE WELL: Getting this to run on Fedora 9 has been a non-trivial 
> effort, due to the differences between the stock kernel.org kernel 
> and F9.
> 
> Also note that, since F9 was only released about an hour ago, I'm
> still downloading all the ISO's like everyone else. I.e. I haven't 
> had time to test this properly on a complete F9 system, only some 
> testing on the F9 pre system. Nonetheless, I'll be updating these
> patches until  they are well enough along to push upstream.
> 
> A copy of the patches, and instructions on how to apply them to 
> the F9 kernel source, can be found at:
>         http://www.supercomputer.org/public/fedora/f9/kdb
> 
> See the README file there for directions.
> 
>         -dwight-
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