[OpenBIOS] Solaris 8 - fun with CPUs :)

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/04/11 13:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>>> Thanks :)  I thought you may be interested as I suspect your kadb-fu is a
>>> lot stronger than mine. Having played around with kadb a short time, I've
>>> already decided that it makes gdb look like a friendly GUI application in
>>> comparison :O
>>
>> Indeed gdb is friendly (taking into account the program sizes it's no
>> wonder), but is there a way to make it load the symbols for the kernel
>> _and_ the modules? I would switch to gdb then.
>
> The part I'm playing with at the moment is setting deferred breakpoints,
> e.g.:
>
> zs#zsa_init:b

Thought you were past that point?

> That breaks, but I struggle with the basic commands to do anything. Perhaps
> I could really cheat by adding a native SPARC gdb executable into my Solaris
> 8 ISO image and then booting that instead of kadb? ;)

You'd have to develop a Solaris kgdb for that ;-).

-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/