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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:18:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger
Message-ID:  <199506051518.RAA03708@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 5, 95 08:21:04 am

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As Joe Greco wrote:
> 
[debugger, but not in case of panic]

> A kernel variable or something like this would be great; I would really like
> to run the debugger on all my systems, but cannot risk it on machines that
> must be up 24/7.

There's already such a variable available, it's currently used by the
console to disable DDB fallback while the console is in graphics mode.
I'm not sure if Søren has already implemented the logic in syscons
however; i've done it for pcvt.

Perhaps we need something more though.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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