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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:00:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhihui Zhang), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Set the baud rate on remote debugging
Message-ID:  <199911152300.QAA58590@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991115175303.59865@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 15, 1999 05:53:03 pm"

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Greg Lehey wrote...
> On Monday, 15 November 1999 at 15:13:53 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > Zhihui Zhang wrote...
> >>
> >> I have set up a remote debugging environment.  But I think default 9600
> >> bps is slow.  I can use "set remotebaud 19200" on the debugging machine
> >> side. How can I set the baud rate on the target machine that is running
> >> the debugged kernel?  (I press CTRL+ESC+ALT to drop to DDB mode and find
> >> no command to set the baud rate).
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Use the CONSPEED option in the kernel config file on the target machine.
> > e.g.:
> >
> > options		CONSPEED=115200
> 
> I'm planning to modify ddb to specify the bit rate as a parameter to
> the gdb command:
> 
>  db> gdb 19200
>  Next trap will enter GDB remote protocol mode at 19200 bps
> 
> Comments?

It might also be nice to have it tuneable as a kernel variable from the
loader and a sysctl variable.  Oh, I see it's already available as the
'machdep.conspeed' sysctl variable.

Obviously, specifying the baud rate at the ddb prompt should override any
previous baud rate setting.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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