ethercons: ethernet console driver for 5-current

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Oct 20 10:38:20 PDT 2003


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:03:52AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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?

No..that was addressd in Robert's mail.

Kris
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