From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 03:01:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CFB37B407; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3C943FE0; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5BA1YDo024224; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:31:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Soren Kristensen Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:31:33 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3EE63760.6040209@soekris.com> <3EE6EDCE.3040006@soekris.com> In-Reply-To: <3EE6EDCE.3040006@soekris.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306111931.33833.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for FreeBSD kernel debugging help X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:01:48 -0000 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:22, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Lesson learned: > > Advanced FreeBSD documentation sucks if you're not a kernel hacker, but > remote kernel debugging works great and are actually kinda fun.... Procedural things are more likely to be usefully documented in the handbook or FAQ (or The Complete FreeBSD), rather than a specific man page. They can be a bit stale though :( Serial GDB is very nice.. You can even do firewire debugging, but I guess you guys can't really use that :) (Firewire mini-PCI board? 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5