Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:13:20 +0100 From: Gerhard Strangar <g.s@arcor.de> To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introduction to writing kernel modules Message-ID: <4F2537E0.50907@arcor.de> In-Reply-To: <20120122135703.15810f3f@davenulle.org> References: <4F1BEE87.6080303@arcor.de> <20120122135703.15810f3f@davenulle.org>
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Patrick Lamaiziere wrote (2012-01-22 13:57): > There is a facility for watchdogs, you should use it. You only have to > register you watchdog in the kernel and watchdogd(8) is used to > control the watchdog from userland. I guess the character device is much easier to implement. However, my current problem is that a manged to compile something and all it does is crash the kernel. Is there a way of debugging this without going through reboot and fsck - maybe an intermediate kernel module, a kernel simluator? I mean, I can'T set up a virtual machine if a want to talk to real hardware.
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