On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2011-09-08 17.34, Eduardo Horvath wrote:On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Eduardo Horvath wrote:On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Paul Goyette wrote:Looking at my system, I find {106} sysctl hw.cnmagic hw.cnmagic = \x27\x02 {107}From the description in cnmagic(9) this would appear to mean that I needto type a Nul character to enter the debugger. I'm not at all sure how I would type a Nul on my USB keyboard.This is not the Nul character, it's been escaped. You need to type a key with the value "0x02", whatever that maps to, assuming the console driver is wired into the cnmagic logic.Sorry, looking more closely, it is the Nul character. This means it has probably not been initialized. Since drivers that use this are responsible to initialize the magic sequence to sane values, it's likely that the console device is not using the cn_magic code.Ok. I don't get it. How would that be the NUL character? To my naive eyes, it looks like single quote, followed by a ^B would be what cnmagic says...I must be missing something...
From man page:
... The escape sequence is character
value 0x27 and can be used to encode special values:
0x27 The literal value 0x27.
0x01 Serial BREAK sequence.
0x02 Nul character.
So, \x217\x27 means that the magic sequence is a single Escape, and
\x27\x01 is a "real" BREAK, and \x27\x02 is Nul
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