configuring sio1 for serial console ...

[User Freebsd]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in 
>>>>> /boot/device.hints.  (This assumes you left device sio in your kernel -- 
>>>>> if not, you need to re-add it).
>>>> 
>>>> 'k, re-adding ... and I take it there is no more 'DDB_UNATTENDED' option? 
>>>> Something equivalent?
>>> 
>>> This is now KDB_UNATTENDED, since it affects by DDB and GDB.  KDB is the 
>>> common debugger framework backend used to implement front-end debuggins 
>>> ervices.
>> 
>> Ya, figured this one out when I tried to compile ... someone might want to 
>> add a mention of the new options in the ddb man page though :)
>
> You mean like the following text in the ddb(4) man page?
>
> NAME
>     ddb -- interactive kernel debugger
>
> SYNOPSIS
>     options KDB
>     options DDB
>
>     To prevent activation of the debugger on kernel panic(9):
>     options KDB_UNATTENDED

Ack, I was probably reading on one of my 4.x boxes :(

But, the handbook does need to be updated:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html

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