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kgdb

Posted Jan 28, 2010 13:06 UTC (Thu) by eliezert (subscriber, #35757)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Debugging kernel code with prints or by reviewing the code and scratching you head is all very fine but when you are working on debugging hardware a kernel debugger is sometimes invaluable.

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kgdb

Posted Mar 22, 2010 23:53 UTC (Mon) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

Yea, I wonder where all the real hackers have gone who don't have just
bleeding edge software (=buggy), but also bleeding edge hardware (=buggy).

You can't review "source code" for HW, or at least you have it available
very, very seldomly (and e.g. VHDL is not really something where you want
to start investigation to see why your driver might be behaving
strangely)...