No. Look at main(). The things that are done in the per-arch PRE_GDB machdep_init() functions are required for things like virtual-to-physical address translation of unity-mapped kernel virtual addresses. Without doing them first, read_in_kernel_config() and/or kernel_init() could not run at all, which is where the first readmem() calls are made. Later on, after gdb has run, further datatype-specific information is gathered in the POST_GDB sections. Dave Anderson