svn commit: r283547 - head/sys/arm/conf

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Mon May 25 23:51:48 UTC 2015


Ian Lepore wrote this message on Mon, May 25, 2015 at 23:27 +0000:
> Author: ian
> Date: Mon May 25 23:27:13 2015
> New Revision: 283547
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/283547
> 
> Log:
>   Ensure that all arm kernel configs contain ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and not
>   BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER if they have a serial console (most do).  A burst of
>   serial line noise (such as unplugging a usb serial adapter) can look like
>   a break and drop a working system into the debugger.  The alt break sequence
>   (<CR>~^B) works fine on both serial and non-serial consoles.

Just so you know, this removes support for video console to break into
the debugger via keyboard...  This mean ctrl-alt-esc and other key
sequences won't work anymore...

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