From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 9 7:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF56537B423 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 07:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Xm57-000MVN-0W; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:58:52 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18175; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:59:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:58:39 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grrr, kgdb anyone? In-Reply-To: <200009082227.PAA64982@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Hmm, well, it would seem that no one ever uses remote gdb for kernel > debugging on the alpha. I've tried flags=0x50, 0x80, and 0xD0. In all > cases, ddb refuses to drop to gdb claiming that a port hasn't been configured > and that I should set flags 0x80 on a sio device and try again. I have > preliminary alpha interrupt threads up and running, but for some reason > Giant is being released when it shouldn't be, and the ata probe dies when > an assertion fails in await(). I would really like to have a working kgdb > if anyone has suggestions as to how to get that. I use it all the time: hint.sio.1.at="isa" hint.sio.1.port="0x2F8" hint.sio.1.irq="3" hint.sio.1.flags="0xc0" Note: you must use sio1 for debugging at the moment. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message