Debugging device drivers (or KDB)

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From: Jan Gittelman
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 16:58

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Does anyone out there have any experience with KDB? I'm trying to debug
a simple device driver and can't get KDB to work properly. I installed
the debug version of the kernel and I can enter the debugger no problem,
both from the debugging terminal keyboard (a vt100) and from my device driver.

The problem occurs after I enter the debugger, no commands work. I can't
do anything including exit. To recover I have to reboot. Anyone have any
suggestions, ideas, or knowledge of documentation?

I got the debug version of the kernel from IBM as part of their development
toolkit, but it came with NO documentation and no one at IBM seems to know
anything about it.

Please mail me any information at jan@dukehrl.mc.duke.edu and I will be
glad to post a summary.

Thanks, 
Jan Gittelman
jan@dukehrl.mc.duke.edu

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