Re: Remote gdb broken in -CURRENT?

From: Tai-hwa Liang (avatar_at_mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw)
Date: 10/31/04

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

    On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
    > On Saturday, 30 October 2004 at 8:06:29 -0500, Ryan Sommers wrote:
    >> 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.
    >
    > You shouldn't need any. As I said, this is with firewire.
    >
    >> 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.
    >
    > To select this serial port for both remote gdb and serial console,
    > yes. I did check this and found it to be 0x10 (only serial console).
    > This has not stopped gdb from working on my older -CURRENT (6 months
    > or so) machine.
    >
    > It's possible that you're right, but that would be a recent bug.
    > Unfortunately, we were trying this on the machine of a course
    > participant, and he's no longer available. I'll check your suggestion
    > when I get back home in a week or so.
    >
    > Is anybody currently using remote gdb (serial or firewire) on a
    > -CURRENT built in the last few weeks? If so, did you need to do
    > anything special to get it to run?

       I can't get remote gdb works with firewire since the new KDB framework
    was imported. If I remembered correctly, someone was asked the similar
    question about on the list a couple of months ago, and the answer is
    simply: It's broken, use serial port instead.
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