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Date:      Fri, 9 May 1997 09:44:56 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: Problems using remote gdb
Message-ID:  <199705082344.JAA10890@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>So now, what has the handbook to be changed to?
>
>Bruce, reading the handbook isn't rocket science :), just in case you
>don't know how to use Lynx, here's the appropriate paragraphs:

Using lynx isn't rocket science :-).

The configuration of serial consoles is under development and not very
suiatble for putting in handbooks (the current configuration doesn't
apply to 2.2...).

>   strip -x, and boot it using the -d boot option. Connect the first
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^
>   serial line of the target machine to any serial line of the debugging
    ^^^^^^^^^^^ Now any sio port can be used.  Previously only sio0 with
                the default configuration (with i/o address 0x3f8, etc.)
		could be used.
>(kgdb)                                                                
>
>   Initialize the remote debugging session (assuming the first serial
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   port is being used) by:                       
    ^^^^
>
>(kgdb) target remote /dev/cuaa0                                       
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the first sio port on a FreeBSD debugger-host.  Any serial port on
any debugger-host can be used.

>   Now, on the target host (that entered DDB right before even starting
                ^^^^^^^^^^^ some confusion about `host'.
			    I used it for the machine running gdb.
>   the device probe), type:                                          

Bruce



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