Re: Remote gdb broken in -CURRENT?

From: Ryan Sommers (ryans_at_gamersimpact.com)
Date: 10/30/04

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To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>

    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. 

    -- 
Ryan Sommers
ryans@gamersimpact.com
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