From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 05:30:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC439106566B for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (out-0-1.mx.aerioconnect.net [216.240.47.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988F18FC0C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (postfix@mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oAI5UCL8022182; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:30:12 -0800 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF772D6014; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:30:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CE4B9E5.3000005@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:30:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcin Wisnicki References: <20101113112447.GF2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113115900.GA14975@freebsd.org> <20101113122853.GG2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113123846.GA21390@freebsd.org> <20101113124146.GH2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113124758.GA23469@freebsd.org> <4CDF0E7F.3060406@freebsd.org> <20101116224156.GA52556@freebsd.org> <20101117033520.GA95666@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 216.240.47.51 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/chromium crashing whole system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:30:13 -0000 On 11/17/10 12:15 PM, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:35:20 +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > >> On Tue Nov 16 10, Alexander Best wrote: >>> WOW! this is the first time i hear of such a concept. it seems great >>> for people like me who are desktop users without any serial/firewire >>> consoles or any additional debugging hardware. >>> >>> is there a way of trying this out somehow? personally i wouldn't need >>> the memory dump to work in partitions. i'd simply blug in a blank usb >>> stick and have the memory dump dd'ed onto it. i think adding partition >>> awareness is not really needed. >> ok i read some more details and i think i figured out how to dump the >> memory to a usb stick. question still remains however: will i be able to >> use that memory snapshot in kgdb or gdb? >> > Probably not. I thought about it a bit more and realized that you will > miss state of cpu registers which is rather important. > > How does debugging over firewire work if it only has access to host RAM ? registers are saved to ram as part of exception handling.. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >