Serial console options

[Julian Elischer]

David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:52:45PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>> ...
>> Using the serial port for the mainboard's BIOS might or might not
>> disable it's use for console or debugging, that was my question.
> 
> In my experience to date, it does not (disable); rather, the same serial
> port may be used for access to the BIOS, as well as for logging in (via
> /etc/ttys).  I haven't tried kgdb over serial, but I have no reason to
> believe that the BIOS use of the port will affect that, either.

yes you can also usee it for  the remote gdb stub as well

however it's easier to do a lot of things if you DO have
a separate port for the gdb stub.
(or use firewire which is *amazing* for the gdb stub part).



> 
> Peace,
> david