kernel debugging question

P. de Boer pieter at thedarkside.nl
Sun May 16 11:13:12 PDT 2004


On Sun, 16 May 2004 12:55:35 +0200
Patrick Mauritz <oxygene at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> you could probably use qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/), an
> x86 emulator (similar to bochs, but with dynamic translation for quite
> good performance) - it allows to attach a gdb to the client
> environment.
> 
> unfortunately there are some linuxisms in the code and the last
> freebsd patch I could find - at
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-03/msg00048.html
> is pretty dated and doesn't apply to current versions of qemu anymore.

The BSD patch only fails on one chunk on vl.c when applied to the
sources of version 0.5.4. That reject is easily fixed by hand. However,
that wouldn't help much, since dfly doesn't seem to boot on it anyway..
(hangs directly after the BTX loader banner)

-- 
Pieter





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