From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 08:24:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA06996 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:24:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA06988 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:24:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16806; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:24:13 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA09384 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:24:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA03708 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:18:31 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506051518.RAA03708@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:18:31 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 5, 95 08:21:04 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 660 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > [debugger, but not in case of panic] > A kernel variable or something like this would be great; I would really like > to run the debugger on all my systems, but cannot risk it on machines that > must be up 24/7. There's already such a variable available, it's currently used by the console to disable DDB fallback while the console is in graphics mode. I'm not sure if Søren has already implemented the logic in syscons however; i've done it for pcvt. Perhaps we need something more though. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)