| From: | "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:56:31 +0930 |
On Thursday, 8 April 2004 at 14:57:22 -0400, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I guess I should apologize first before you read any further, for the > dumbness of this question .... > > I've got a few 4.x systems kicking around, and at the moment have one hooked > via serial port to my dragonfly box. I was hoping to use it to help debug > some lockups I'm seeing... > > Not sure if this is possible or if I'd need to convert it to DragonFly > first... If you're concerned about whether you can use FreeBSD gdb to debug a DragonFly kernel, I think you don't need to worry. I've used it to debug NetBSD and Linux as well; DragonFly should be no problem at all. > On the Dragonfly box I break to ddb, and type 'gdb' and then 'c' to > continue. Then I break to ddb again and it tells me that it's received > the break and I assume is now chatting on the serial port ... > > On the 4.x (4.10beta) box, I see - > > $ gdb -k > ... > (kgdb) target remote /dev/cuaa0 > Remote debugging using /dev/cuaa0 > Ignoring packet error, continuing... > (etc) This is a typical communication error. It certainly doesn't relate to any potential compatibility issues between FreeBSD and DragonFly. > Not sure if I should be using the ttyd0 instead of cuaa0, or perhaps > something else entirely different? cuas0 should be right, unless you meant to say cuaa1 :-) > Not 100% sure about my cable either, I just grabbed it out of a big > box of random cables in our lab ... It *looks* like a good cable. There are plenty of good cables. It's not clear that this is the *correct* cable. > Could I perhaps also be using the wrong baud rate ? Yes. > Any help our pointers to help would be greatly appreciated .. I'd start by trying to set up a cu or tip connection between the two boxes. This is described in my (eternal draft) kernel debugging tutorial. You can find the latest version at http://wwww.lemis.com/papers/Taiwan/tutorial.pdf (the name is because I did it at the AsiaBSDCon last month), specifically round page 34. Let me know if you have any problems. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@xxxxxxxxx for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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