Bug #1365
closed
mdb needs 16-bit disassembler support
100%
Description
Not a joke -- with the presence of KVM, running 16-bit code is actually a possibility (albeit as a guest). Trust me that this seems laughable until you need it -- at which point you desperately need it (namely debugging the BIOS on a virtual image). Fortunately, mdb's architecture and the architecture of the disassembler makes this a snap -- so much so that I consider it a bug that it wasn't originally done and not a feature to add it.
Updated by Garrett D'Amore almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
changeset: 13431:e7ec489c7cf5
tag: tip
user: Bryan Cantrill <bryan@joyent.com>
date: Sat Aug 13 02:06:39 2011 -0700
description:
1362 add kvmstat for monitoring of KVM statistics
1363 add vmregs[] variable to DTrace
1364 need disassembler support for VMX instructions
1365 mdb needs 16-bit disassembler support
Reviewed by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@nexenta.com>