Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-11 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > > > 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 extre

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-11 Thread Christian Zander
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:15:53PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > 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. > > Any chance of getting that

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-11 Thread Nate Lawson
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, John Polstra wrote: > 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

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Sep 09 at 04:52, Julian Elischer spoke: > > it isdangerous because rebooting the local machine can en up sending a break > > to the remote machine. > > Is that to say rebooting the machine where I want to run gdb? > I've rebooted this machine and nothing happened. > I

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread John Polstra
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

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 09 at 04:52, Julian Elischer spoke: > there is the following option: > # Options for serial drivers that support consoles (only for sio now): > options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER #a BREAK on a comconsole goes to > #DDB, if available. > it isda

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
there is the following option: # Options for serial drivers that support consoles (only for sio now): options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER #a BREAK on a comconsole goes to #DDB, if available. it isdangerous because rebooting the local machine can en up se

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Hanspeter Roth 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

interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, 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.