In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > using a single serial cable I can pass control to the remote kgdb > pressing ctl-alt-del at the target host. > I'm looking for a means to interrupt the target kernel from the > remote host. > I got suggestions using a second serial cable or using ipgdb > instead. > Setting remotechat didn't help me. > > Is it intended to be able to interrupt the target kernel from the > remote kgdb by some means at all? Or is this a wrong expectation?
BSD/OS has a little state machine in its sio driver which notices if something looking like a kgdb packet comes in and interrupts the target automatically. It's extremely handy. You just type "target remote /dev/tty00" into kgdb and the target breaks into the debugger -- no muss, no fuss. I wish we had this feature too. It should obviously be under the control of a sysctl to protect against accidental entry into the debugger. Another nice thing about BSD/OS is that when you exit kgdb, the target OS automatically starts running again. So you can enter and exit the debugger painlessly, as many times as you'd like. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
