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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:13:42 +0200
From:      "=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_P=C3=A9rez_Arauz?=o" <fbl@aoek.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What do you use for kernel debugging?
Message-ID:  <20140929081149.M42132@aoek.com>
In-Reply-To: <82981B04-42EF-4F06-A01D-5465D91C2B86@gmail.com>
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Hi Garrett,

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:43:45 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote
[...]
> When I was debugging getting ACPI to work on my netbook, here were 
> some other things I did to get the system up and going: - Built a 
> stripped down kernel that just contains the essential bits (CPU, 
> filesystem, storage). - built one kernel with debug bits and one 
> with release bits (titled them differently of course). - built 
> networking and other components as klds and loaded them at boot. 
> This gave me a quick turnaround time when figuring out what was 
> broken suspend/resume wise. It might help you isolate which drivers 
> or subsystems are causing boot issues as well (at least netbook 
> system boot is relatively quick compared to the other systems I boot 
> off of with gobs of ram and storage drives...).
> 
> HTH!
> -Garrett

Yes, that's gold. It might not apply to the specific case where
device probe does not complete, but I'll give it a try. Give me a
day or two.

Thank you!

BR,

--
José Pérez Arauzo




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