Subject: Re: RFC: switching to the console on panic
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/11/2006 20:34:03
In article <20060211161123.GA28892@rangerover.13thmonkey.org>,
Reinoud Zandijk  <reinoud@netbsd.org> wrote:
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>Dear folks,
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>a small patch proposal to have ddb() switch to the console when invoked. So 
>when working on say ttyE5 and a panic occures, it'll switch to the console 
>where it prints the ddb prompt and backtrack if any.
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>Avoids confusion mainly and prevents ppl. from typing in stuff and not 
>understanding why the program is not responding.
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What if the console is not wscons?

christos