ethercons: ethernet console driver for 5-current

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Oct 20 10:03:57 PDT 2003


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:13:27PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> I had a fair amount of time over the last week running in disconnected
> operation, and realized I had too many cables under my desk, so I spent a
> bit of time exploring the FreeBSD console code.  After reading a FREENIX
> paper this summer on a Linux ethernet console driver, I took a pass at
> implementing ethernet console support for FreeBSD.

Robert,

This looks very interesting!  Can we run ddb over the
ethercon to debug a wedged machine?

-- 
Steve


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