kern/74977: [modules] dcons.ko requires KDB support

Cai, Quanqing caiquanqing at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 03:10:13 GMT 2005


The following reply was made to PR kern/74977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/74977: [modules] dcons.ko requires KDB support
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:02:27 -0800

 submitter's email address is invalid, please close this PR, it's not a bug.
 
 On 11/24/05, Cai, Quanqing <caiquanqing at gmail.com> wrote:
 > It's not a bug, please carefully read man pages of dcons and dconschat ag=
 ain.
 >
 > In your situation, you should build kernel by new way, it is described
 > in handbook.
 >
 > If you want to use dconschat to debug remote machine, just use it, you
 > don't need dcons module on local machine. There is a good example in
 > man page of dconschat.
 >
 > If you really do want to use dcons module, you should need these debug
 > options, because you want to debug the kernel, locally or remotely:),
 > I think most of developers use dcons as debug purpose.
 >
 > BR
 > Cai, Quanqing
 >


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