Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:36:21 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@plutotech.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems using remote gdb Message-ID: <199705072236.IAA22017@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>No, you must have 0x10 to get console support. 0x40 is optional. It >>makes debugging work better at a cost of breaking ordinary serial console >>support. See LINT. > >Well, it looked like 0x40 was a no-op without 0x10. Debugging wouldn't >work for me without setting the flags, so I'd say that the flags "make >debugging work better" is an understatement. 8-) Correct, but 0x10 is not a no-op without 0x40. It gives backwards compatible behaviour. (I couldn't figure out a good way to make flags 0 give backwards compatible behaviour without breaking the new feature of setting the console device by setting flags on it.) Bruce
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