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I wasn't saying you can't debug the kernel.

I was saying that for practical purposes, debugging the kernel is needlessly hard.

As one example, say you are running the current ubuntu. A kernel panic will give you a bunch of hex addresses. How do you get a symbol'd backtrace of the kernel panic?

(if you can't get that easily, running kgdb won't let you do symbolic debugging either)



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