Remote gdb broken in -CURRENT?

[Ryan Sommers]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>Is anybody currently using remote gdb kernel debugging in -CURRENT?  I
>tried yesterday (embarrassingly, during my kernel debug tutorial), and
>it looks as if things are broken.
>
>Specifically, I was doing it in conjunction with firewire.  The kernel
>was built with 'options GDB', and it showed that the corresponding gdb
>functions were included, but the sysctl debug.kdb.available shows only
>ddb.  I did a bit of looking around for what might have caused it, but
>wasn't successful.
>
>Any ideas?
>  
>
This is probably caused by you not having any serial ports flagged for 
GDB. In /boot/device.hints look for the 'hint.sio.X.flags' where X is 
your serial port. It should be 0x90 for remote GDB debugging.

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Ryan Sommers
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