What is the default break-to-debugger key sequence on ARM?

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 6 16:29:02 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 09:23 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 07:20:14PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On 6 Apr 2018, at 18:33, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > What is the present default keysequence to get into the debugger
> > > on
> > > armv7 and arm64? I think it used to be esc-ctrl-b on the serial
> > > console,
> > > but that has no effect.
> > > 
> > try ~^B
> > 
> > 
> Thank you, that worked.
> 
> bob prohaska

Actually the full sequence is carriage-return, then ~, then ^B.

If you do something like start to type, then backspace so the line is
empty, then do the ~^B it won't work, because CR wasn't the keystroke
immediately preceeding the ~.

-- Ian



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