On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, José Pérez Arauzo wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to track down a (deadlock?) issue in CURRENT via DDB. The kernel > does > not complete hw probes on my Acer V5. > > I get stuck on apic_isr looping which leads nowhere. > > So I thought maybe things improve if I debug from another machine. > > > What do you use for kernel debugging? According to the handbook kgdb over > serial > is a good option, do you agree? I'm on a netbook with no ethernet and no > option > for firewire: can I have a USB / nullmodem setup to work?
You cannot. > I have no old-style uarts hardware anymore, as the handbook suggests... > > Any idea is welcome before I buy extra hw. I have a USB to serial showing up > as > /dev/cuaU0, do I need to grab another one and a nullmodem cable or there are > better > alternatives? Thank you. I'm not sure that there are alternatives at all, unfortunately. You may be reduced to debugging-via-printf. -Ben Kaduk _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
