Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:49:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Driver Message-ID: <199801191949.MAA05838@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <7395.885225385@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 19, 98 07:56:25 am
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> > 2) Would someone document *somewhere* what the hell is the syscon key code > > that's supposed to bring up the kernel debugger? I had to USTL for this. > > Heh heh. How do you think stuff like this _gets_ documented? Someone > like you finds that its not doc'd, gets really annoyed, then submits > his diffs to the handbook or FAQ in order to prevent others from > having to go through the same learning process - without that level > of general annoyance, it's unlikely that anyone else will document it. :-) I think there should be a console message about "type xxx to enter the kernel debugger" when the kernel debugger has been enabled. This is better than a man page documentation, since the hotkey can be changed, and the only accurate information there is must be obtained from the kernel data segment. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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