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Hi, I am writing a device driver on x86 machine,Ubuntu distribution,kernel version 2.6.35.I want to debug my driver in kernel mode.I tried KGDB(Kernel Level Source Debugger).But support is given for ...
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    Debugging Device Driver in Kernel Mode

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    I am writing a device driver on x86 machine,Ubuntu distribution,kernel version 2.6.35.I want to debug my driver in kernel mode.I tried KGDB(Kernel Level Source Debugger).But support is given for kernel version 2.6.13.But I want to make KGDB work on version 2.6.35.Could anyone help me where can I get help to make KGDB work on 2.6.35 version?Or is there any other method to debug my driver using some other tool?Thanking you.

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    Did you configure the kernel for debugging first? KDBG ( not KGDB ) should be just fine with 2.6.35, assuming you get the correct version of kdbg.
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