On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > If you do not own a x86 system that itself implements remote > administration, you need to run Solaris x86 permanently under kmdb. > > This is because the only way to abort a hung x86 system is to send > a <break> to ttya and to let kmdb handle abortion.
Much better is to add an option to abort_sequence_enter() to panic instead of drop into the debugger. That way you wouldn't even need kmdb. Of course, the option would imply nopanicdebug=1. john