Subject: Online paper: Debugging Kernel Problems (BSD)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/31/2004 18:56:58
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"Debugging kernel problems is a black art. Not many people do it, and
documentation is rare, inaccurate and incomplete. This document is no
exception: faced with the choice of accuracy and completeness, I chose to
attempt the latter. As usual, time was the limiting factor, and this draft is
still in beta status. This is a typical situation for the whole topic of
kernel debugging: building debug tools and documentation is expensive, and
the people who write them are also the people who use them, so there's a
tendency to build as much of the tool as necessary to do the job at hand. If
the tool is well-written, it will be reusable by the next person who looks at
a particular area; if not, it might fall into disuse. Consider this book a
starting point for your own development of debugging tools, and remember:
more than anywhere else, this is an area with ''some assembly required''."
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http://www.lemis.com/papers/Taiwan/tutorial.pdf
Don't know how's for you but personally I found this document to be
interesting. Just wanted to share the link with people who for example do not
read BSDHound.
// wbr