Re: Excellent job on the firewire support!

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:03:59 -0700
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Tuesday, 20 July 2004 at 11:41:52 +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
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>>(sorry for resending)
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>>At Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:04:53 +0100,
>>Doug Rabson wrote:
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>>>>2) Is dcons usable after a panic (ie, DDB or KDB_TRACE)?  Or is it
>>>>   only usable for remote-gdb?
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>>>Dcons provides two full duplex streams - one for console and one for
>>>gdb. You can use DDB on the console just like normal.
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>>It's designed for such panic/debugging situation.
>>Actually, it's rather inefficient for usual situation
>>but the speed of FireWire hide the problem ;-)
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>I think that the most spectacular use of firewire is debugging a
>completely hung system.  If you've already attached, the debugger can
>still access the memory of a system which isn't reacting *at all*.
>Obviously you can't continue execution, but just seeing what's in
>memory is a great advantage.
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>On the other hand, it was my understanding that marcel's new kernel
>debugging framework broke firewire debugging.  What's the current
>status there?
>
He helped "Mr Firewire" get it going again the next day...

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>Greg
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