Excellent job on the firewire support!

[Andrew Gallatin]

Doug Rabson writes:
 > Actually thats the only downside of dcons. It doesn't cut in until the 
 > firewire controller attaches. It relies on the fact that the fwohci 
 > driver allows access to physical memory from any node on the bus 
 > (implemeted in hardware so you can examine the memory of a hung 
 > machine). The dconschat program uses this feature to access the dcons 
 > ring buffers in the target machine.

Does remote access to physical memory require dcons to be loaded
on the target?

If no, assuming I had a Windows or Linux box on the firewire bus, would it be
possible to access physical memory from a different OS?

Thanks,

Drew