Attachment 126267 Details for Bug 170013 – kerneldebug-gdb-doc-update.patch

[patch] kerneldebug-gdb-doc-update.patch

kerneldebug-gdb-doc-update.patch (text/plain), 2.15 KB, created by Carl Delsey on 2012-07-20 01:30:11 UTC

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Created: 2012-07-20 01:30:11 UTC

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>Index: kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
>===================================================================
>--- kerneldebug/chapter.sgml	(revision 39236)
>+++ kerneldebug/chapter.sgml	(working copy)
>@@ -685,16 +685,22 @@
>       simply runs a similar copy of the very same kernel (but stripped of the
>       debugging information).</para>
> 
>-    <para>You should configure the kernel in question with <command>config
>-	-g</command>, include <option>DDB</option> into the configuration, and
>-      compile it as usual.  This gives a large binary, due to the
>-      debugging information.  Copy this kernel to the target machine, strip
>-      the debugging symbols off with <command>strip -x</command>, and boot it
>-      using the <option>-d</option> boot option.  Connect the serial line
>-      of the target machine that has "flags 080" set on its sio device
>-      to any serial line of the debugging host.
>-      Now, on the debugging machine, go to the compile directory of the target
>-      kernel, and start <command>gdb</command>:</para>
>+    <para>You should configure the kernel in question with <command>config -g
>+      </command> if building the "Traditional" way. If building the "New" way,
>+      make sure the line 
>+      
>+      <programlisting>makeoptions DEBUG=-g</programlisting>
>+      
>+      is in the configuration. In both cases include <option>DDB</option> and 
>+      <option>GDB</option> into the configuration, and compile it as usual. This 
>+      gives a large binary, due to the debugging information. Copy this kernel 
>+      to the target machine, strip the debugging symbols off with <command>strip 
>+      -x</command>, and boot it using the <option>-d</option> boot option. 
>+      Connect the serial line of the target machine that has "flags 080" set on 
>+      its sio device to any serial line of the debugging host. See the 
>+      &man.sio.4; man page to see how to set the flags on an sio device. Now, on 
>+      the debugging machine, go to the compile directory of the target kernel, 
>+      and start <command>gdb</command>:</para>  
> 
>     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>kgdb kernel</userinput>
> GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it

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