Agreeing with Keith's observation, the PPC64 implementation has been using
the string "startKDB" for quite some time. (more than a year).
Occasionally i hear a complaint about it not working, but typically is
because it's been mis-typed, so just a matter of typing it again.
It would be nice if the "make *config" tools would support setting that
string, so this could be a config option instead of hard-coded.
-Will
willschm at us.ibm.com
Linux on PowerPC-64 Development
IBM Rochester
Keith Owens
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:53:51 +0800,
"Zhang, Sonic" <sonic.zhang at intel.com> wrote:
> I think it will cost too many keys to trap into KDB from a
serial
>console.
>
> What do you think about "ctrl-=" or "ctrl-\"?
That is deliberate, it should take more effort to get into the debugger
than just hitting a single character. SGI have been using <escape>KDB
internally for several months and it has not caused any problems.