"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca> writes:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> For ACPI debugging, e.g. after suspend-to-RAM you are lucky if you get
>> the text console back. You *certainly* don't get a configured serial
>> console on most systems.
>
> No, but restoring a serial console in the wakecode is much easier to
> do (and pretty standard) compared to bringing a display adapter back
> alive.

In fact, in an early abortive ACPI hackathon, the first (and major)
thing I did was to add code to make the serial port restore itself
properly after wakeup so that I could do debugging on my (only) laptop
with serial.

Anyway, all this (ACPI, serial) is a side issue. The point is, you
need ways of doing remote debugging on modern hardware without serial,
and ipkdb is one obvious way. I don't really care which one NetBSD
uses, but it should support *something*.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com