kern/74977: dcons.ko requires KDB support

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

At Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:43:20 +0100,
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> 
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> On Mon, 13.12.2004 at 07:49:14 +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> > > >Fix:
> > > Remove those two 'echo defines' from the Makefile, rebuild the module,
> > > dconschat(8) starts working! :)
> > > I don't know if this is the right fix however. Is KDB needed on the
> > > _client_ to debug the _servers_ Kernel via dconschat?
> > 
> > You don't need dcons(4) on the host system.
> > dcons(4) is necessary only on the target system.
> 
> Then I'm doing something wrong. dconschat only worked, when dcons is
> loaded on host system. (Target System has loaded dcons and dcons_crom)
> 
> % fwcontrol
> 2 devices (info_len=2)
> node           EUI64          status
>    1  20-00-00-00-04-00-52-cf      0
>    0  35-4f-c0-00-35-67-98-30      1
> % dconschat -t 35-4f-c0-00-35-67-98-30
> [dcons disconnected (get crom failed)]
> 
> And nothing ever happens.

You may need a manual bus reset after loading dcons(4) on the target system.
Try 'fwcontrol -r'.

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