gdb over Firewire

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 10:51:09 +0800, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 10:43:44 +0800, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 11 February 2005 at 10:11:31 +0100, Gerald Heinig wrote:
>>>>> Hello Current'ers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to get two-machine kernel debugging over Firewire working,
>>>>> unfortunately without much luck so far. dconschat over Firewire works
>>>>> fine, but gdb won't attach, complaining about get_tty_state failed,
>>>>> among other things.
>>>>> Is kernel gdb over Firewire a -current-only feature?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's what I get, and it indicates that I don't have gdb capability.
>>>> If that's what you get, try building a kernel with firewire support
>>>> built-in (as opposed to the (recommended) method of loading the
>>>> firewire klds later).  The background here is the hypothesis that the
>>>> kernel checks for debug back-ends at boot time, and not later, so if
>>>> you load the firewire klds later, it won't be registered.
>>>> Note that this is a hypothesis.  If you try this, please let us know
>>>> what happens.
>>>
>>> From my observation, only "device dcons" is necessary to be static
>>> linked in kernel, the rest such like firewire.ko and dcons_crom.ko
>>> can still be dynamically loaded.
>>
>> So you're saying that this approach works for you where it has failed
>> otherwise?
>
>   Exactly. It looks like that your hypothesis is right: dcons only
> does gdb backend registration during boot time(by static linked
> approach).

Thanks.  Good to know.

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