Re: Is it possible to debug an AMD kernel on Intel

At Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:01:03 -0800,
David O'Brien wrote:

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:38:37PM +0900, gnn@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
or vice versa? That is, can I do kgdb/gdb over serial from an Intel
box to an AMD box?

George,
This question make no sense. Of course you can debug a kernel on an
Intel system using an AMD system. There isn't anything CPU vendor
specific within a single architecture that would affect you doing this.

But I don't think that's really your question. I think you're
asking if you can debug a FreeBSD/i386 kernel using a FreeBSD/amd64
system. I.e. cross-platform debugging.


That was my question.

The answer is "no" using stock FreeBSD bits. A single GDB binary
cannot be built multi-platform.

I'm going to try the cross-platform tools and see what I can do.

Thanks,
George
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