On 11/17/10 12:15 PM, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:35:20 +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > >> On Tue Nov 16 10, Alexander Best wrote: >>> WOW! this is the first time i hear of such a concept. it seems great >>> for people like me who are desktop users without any serial/firewire >>> consoles or any additional debugging hardware. >>> >>> is there a way of trying this out somehow? personally i wouldn't need >>> the memory dump to work in partitions. i'd simply blug in a blank usb >>> stick and have the memory dump dd'ed onto it. i think adding partition >>> awareness is not really needed. >> ok i read some more details and i think i figured out how to dump the >> memory to a usb stick. question still remains however: will i be able to >> use that memory snapshot in kgdb or gdb? >> > Probably not. I thought about it a bit more and realized that you will > miss state of cpu registers which is rather important. > > How does debugging over firewire work if it only has access to host RAM ? registers are saved to ram as part of exception handling.. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Thu Nov 18 2010 - 04:30:13 UTC
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