configuring sio1 for serial console ...
User Freebsd
freebsd at hub.org
Thu Jun 29 11:30:22 UTC 2006
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in
>>>>> /boot/device.hints. (This assumes you left device sio in your kernel --
>>>>> if not, you need to re-add it).
>>>>
>>>> 'k, re-adding ... and I take it there is no more 'DDB_UNATTENDED' option?
>>>> Something equivalent?
>>>
>>> This is now KDB_UNATTENDED, since it affects by DDB and GDB. KDB is the
>>> common debugger framework backend used to implement front-end debuggins
>>> ervices.
>>
>> Ya, figured this one out when I tried to compile ... someone might want to
>> add a mention of the new options in the ddb man page though :)
>
> You mean like the following text in the ddb(4) man page?
>
> NAME
> ddb -- interactive kernel debugger
>
> SYNOPSIS
> options KDB
> options DDB
>
> To prevent activation of the debugger on kernel panic(9):
> options KDB_UNATTENDED
Ack, I was probably reading on one of my 4.x boxes :(
But, the handbook does need to be updated:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html
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