Both development and test machines require redhat 7.3 or later. The test machine runs a kernel to be debugged. For example to debug a linux kernel version 2.4.3, the test machine will run 2.4.3 kernel. The development machine need not run any special kernel (the kernel that comes with rh6.2 will do).


If debugging of modules is not required, having above software is sufficient. For debugging of modules, the gdb and module utilities that come with redhat 7.3 are not sufficient. The gdb to be used for debugging modules is available from this site, whereas module utilities are available elsewhere. A shell script used to load modules on the test machine is required to be present on the development machine. The module debugging page gives more information on these topics.


Kgdb has been tested with redhat 9 also.