David Wolfskill wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:52:45PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: >> ... >> Using the serial port for the mainboard's BIOS might or might not >> disable it's use for console or debugging, that was my question. > > In my experience to date, it does not (disable); rather, the same serial > port may be used for access to the BIOS, as well as for logging in (via > /etc/ttys). I haven't tried kgdb over serial, but I have no reason to > believe that the BIOS use of the port will affect that, either. yes you can also usee it for the remote gdb stub as well however it's easier to do a lot of things if you DO have a separate port for the gdb stub. (or use firewire which is *amazing* for the gdb stub part). > > Peace, > davidReceived on Thu Mar 05 2009 - 17:54:44 UTC
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