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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 12:35:31 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        dfr@nlsystems.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Debugging 
Message-ID:  <199905211935.MAA01391@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 08:44:18 PDT." <199905211544.IAA43739@vashon.polstra.com> 

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>In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905180908070.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>,
>Doug Rabson  <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> 
>> > In fact, there's also a 0x80, which you need to set (along with 0x10,
>> > it appears) to run remote debugging.  I'm guessing a bit at this,
>> > since I haven't had time to look at the code, but 0x90 works for me.
>> > Doug?
>> 
>> I used to use 0x50 but now 0x80 works fine.  I'm not sure why the debug
>> flag changed from 0x40 to 0x80 but the new systems seems to allow both
>> serial console and serial debugging at the same time so I'm not
>> complaining.
>
>There must be something I'm missing here.  On i386 systems I have
>always used one serial port for both console and remote gdb, since the
>dawn of time.  Why the sudden need for a new flag?

  So that you can do both on _different_ ports.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com


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