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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi John,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kgdb/">https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kgdb/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It’s the first hit when you google for kdgb, and it got me started.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you really look for professional tools, the Lauterbach debuggers are really doing a good job and are comparably cheap. But you may only need such
tools when your kernel is not yet up and running (i.e. for BSP development) or when you need tracing support beyond the excellent tracing capabilities already provided by the kernel’s ftrace infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>John Smith<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 3. Dezember 2016 19:46<br>
<b>An:</b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 73, Issue 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Can you help post some good/still relevant links? Call me stupid, I did google, found a few websites, and most of them are kind of out of contexts(don't know how to follow). For
beginners, step-by-step tutorials are the best. so far, sounds like kgdb is promising, but it requires a lot of backgrounds to start with. I still have not figured out the exact steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Message: 1<br>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:15:44 +0000<br>
From: Andrey Utkin <</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:andrey_utkin@fastmail.com"><span lang="EN-US">andrey_utkin@fastmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
Subject: Re: Debugging tool for Linux kernel and driver development<br>
To: Teoh Choon Zone <</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:choon-zone.teoh@vie.com.my"><span lang="EN-US">choon-zone.teoh@vie.com.my</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
Cc: kernelnewbies <</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org"><span lang="EN-US">kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
Message-ID: <</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:20161202231544.GB23301@dell-m4800.home"><span lang="EN-US">20161202231544.GB23301@dell-m4800.home</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:27:01PM +0800, Teoh Choon Zone wrote:<br>
> What are some widely used industrial tools (software/ hardware) for<br>
> debugging Linux kernel and driver? </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Recently my company allocate a budget<br>
> for purchasing this kind of tools, so I would like what are the tools that<br>
> would greatly ease our development.<br>
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You'd better budget some time to google a bit and watch conference<br>
videos showing debugging techniques :) There are fine videos from past<br>
Kernel Recipes conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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