The following reply was made to PR toolchain/35597; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/35597: cross-gdb does not grok NetBSD target kcore/kvm
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:01:31 -0700

 The issue is that "target kcore" / "target kvm" depend on the native  
 libkvm.  Because we can't build a cross-targeted libkvm, we can't use  
 that functionality.
 
 To fix this, gdb would need to be taught about the crash dump format  
 and how to parse the page tables in the crash dump to do the KVA ->  
 file offset mapping (basically, replace the dead-kernel functionality  
 that we get from libkvm), and do so in a cross-safe way.
 
 -- thorpej