Kernel Debugging
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Feb 3 12:24:10 PST 2004
In message: <401FD0C6.3000606 at spinnakernet.com>
Sridhar Chellappa <schellap at spinnakernet.com> writes:
: How do we debug a freeBSD kernel ? Do we have something similar to
: "KGDB" that linux offers ?
Ironically, we've had kgdb for a number of years longer than Linux.
Actually, it is ironic that linux has a in-kernel debugger given
Linus' strong resistance to it for years.
There's also ddb that can be used for a lower level of debugging w/o
the need for a serial console.
Warner
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