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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:53:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010620095341.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106200949000.69192-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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On 20-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Was this tested on alpha?

I will shortly.  It might make my life a lot easier as I might finally get a
chance to break into my livelocked SMP rawhide now.  Doing stack traces and
what not via memory dumps from SRM is much more painful compared to ddb. :)

> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ian Dowse wrote:
> 
>> iedowse     2001/06/20 09:47:24 PDT
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/isa              sio.c 
>>   Log:
>>   The serial console break-to-debugger support only functioned while
>>   the console device was open. At other times, the interrupts that
>>   are used to detect the break signal or ~^B sequence were disabled,
>>   so these events would not be noticed until the next open (e.g. the
>>   next kernel printf). This was mainly a problem while there was no
>>   getty running on the console, such as during bootup or shutdown.
>>   
>>   For serial consoles with break-to-debugger support, we now enable
>>   the generation of interrupts at attach time, and we leave them
>>   enabled while the device is closed.
>>   
>>   Reviewed by:       bde (I've since made chages as per his suggestions)
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.336     +22 -2     src/sys/isa/sio.c
>> 
> 

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