Re: remote GDB debugging and the __init macro of init.h

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:50:50PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> What you've done should solve the problem, but note
> that it has the side effect of preventing the text and data
> sections in question from getting freed up at the end
> of initialization.  I probably should have done so myself
> last year when I was struggling with debugging some init 
> code using kgdb, but instead I simply got used to finding 
> the address in the symbol table and setting the breakpoints 
> by hex address instead of by symbol.
> 
> The real fix would be to  teach gdb to treat symbols
> in the init section as valid targets.

Did somebody look into porting KDB?

  Ralf