[coyotos-dev] The joys of hardware bugs

Christopher Nelson nadiasvertex at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 18:22:52 EDT 2007


>
> Real hardware at home would run quite a while, and then would assertion
> check, complaining that the 'user accessable' bit was set in an entry.
> This was what finally allowed me to trace the problem down.
>

You probably already know this, but bochs has a gdb stub.  I generally debug
kernels by enabling the gdb stub and connecting to bochs using DDD.  So nice
to step through the kernel, examine the memory.  Makes finding tricky stuff
like this easier.

-={C}=-
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