Subject: Re: Accessing ddb on NetBSD/vax?
To: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/02/2002 09:41:10
> >
> > Correct; "<ESC> - D" only works on the MTPR console. Some way to detect
> > it should be added to the DZ driver also.
> 
> I suppose this would work as long as it's restricted to the console
> device.  People would have to be careful to not send binary data over
> the console with ddb enabled in their kernels :-)  The man page for ddb
> indicates that most of the other systems, when using a serial console,
> drop into it when a BREAK is received.
> 
The MTPR console cannot detect break, hence the "<ESC> - D" sequence.
the DZ driver should be able to do it though.

-- Ragge