Serial consoles and remote GDB

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 06:13:12PM -0400, Rob Deker wrote:
> 
> I'm doing some driver hacking w/ FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I've hit a spot where
> my life would be much easier if I had remote GDB for kernel debugging. I
> am however using a serial console on this box, and can't seem to get
> things working so that I have console access to the box on one serial
> port and remote gdb running on the other one. Is this possible?

Yes. Your hints are not the problem. You need to tell the kernel that
you want to use remote GDB. Boot with -g or set boot_gdb=YES in
/boot/loader.conf

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