From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 27 21:46:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19589 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from opus.cts.cwu.edu (opus.cts.cwu.edu [198.104.92.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19397 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:40:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu) Received: from localhost (skynyrd@localhost) by opus.cts.cwu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA08586; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:40:36 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons To: Greg Lehey cc: Bruce Evans , julian@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote gdb (was: no boot: config -g and options DDB) In-Reply-To: <19971228155633.57807@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk COMCONSOLE exists only in our hearts now :) Are you sure it chooses the first sio with flags 0x10, or does the first boot prompt get squirted out all eligible sio units? -Chris On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > OK, I have it working now. On the face of it, it looks as if these > fixes did it, but I couldn't be sure without going back and trying > without. Thanks. > > In summary, it appears that you need to build a kernel with COMCONSOLE > and at least one of the sio ports with flags 0x10. Contrary to my > previous claim, it doesn't have to be sio0: the kernel chooses the > first sio with flags 0x10. These fixes mean that it will work without > the -h flag. > > Again, many thanks. > > Greg >