Re: How to get into ddb after system is booted?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

> What sort of machine is this and what device is the console?  The cnmagic
> code only works on the console input device if that device has the cnmagic
> support hooks.

It's amd64

> wskbd.c currently does not support cnmagic.  Someone should probably add
> that.  OTOH, someone should also change wscons so we don't translate from
> USB keycodes to whatever we're using internally to what the X server
> expects.  It's redundant and really complicates things like adding cnmagic
> support.

:)

I infer from your comment that I'm not likely to be succesful with ddb.


Since I really only need to update a single memory location (to enable 
some additional printf's), can this be done with gdb on the running 
machine?  Can I make gdb write to /dev/mem or /dev/kmem ?



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