Subject: Re: IPKDB still alive?
To: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@NetBSD.org>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2006 21:03:45
Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@NetBSD.org> writes:
> recently i remembered that we had ipkdb for remote kernel debugging. Are
> ppl. still using it? does it still work?
>
> I would like to use it to remotely use gdb on an i386 using preferably a
> cheap PCI rtk card.
Short version: no. Only a very small number of ethernet cards were
ever supported in our kernel, and GDB has long since lost the ability
to speak udp ipkdb.
- Nathan