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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:10:58 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Set the baud rate on remote debugging
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911172110300.318-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991116205031.07184@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Monday, 15 November 1999 at 16:46:50 -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >
> >> On Monday, 15 November 1999 at 15:13:53 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> >>> Zhihui Zhang wrote...
> >>>>
> >>>> I have set up a remote debugging environment.  But I think default 9600
> >>>> bps is slow.  I can use "set remotebaud 19200" on the debugging machine
> >>>> side. How can I set the baud rate on the target machine that is running
> >>>> the debugged kernel?  (I press CTRL+ESC+ALT to drop to DDB mode and find
> >>>> no command to set the baud rate).
> >>>>
> >>>> Any help is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Use the CONSPEED option in the kernel config file on the target machine.
> >>> e.g.:
> >>>
> >>> options		CONSPEED=115200
> >>
> >> I'm planning to modify ddb to specify the bit rate as a parameter to
> >> the gdb command:
> >>
> >>  db> gdb 19200
> >>  Next trap will enter GDB remote protocol mode at 19200 bps
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >
> > That will be useful.  I have just found out that I can use sysctl -w
> > machdep.conspeed=19200 to achieve this.  But I can not go higher than
> > 19200.
> 
> I set 38400 today, but it ran very badly.  I think 19200 is probably
> as high as you want to go, at least until somebody fixes the buffering
> in the UARTs.

I've always used 57600 and it seems to work fine...

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