Subject: Re: breaking to SRM via a terminal server.
To: Stephen M Jones <smj@cirr.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/14/2002 16:56:05
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:21:11AM -0600, Stephen M Jones wrote:
> I'm wondering if I need to look at a different solution if the livingston
> infact does not allow that.  It seems to handle consoles fine beyond that.
> I haven't tried ^P to drop to the kernel debugger though .. I'm assuming

As far as I know ^P won't work by default with NetBSD. On my 1.5.2,
as well, as -current alpha, only a break gives me the kernel debugger.
You can probably hack the serial driver to use a magic char, though.

> thats the same debugger you'd get in the event of a system panic?

Yes. 

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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