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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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