Proposed change of kdb key on serial console

[Thomas Duffy]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:10, Keith Owens wrote:
> 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.

ctrl-a is also used in screen as the default escape, so I vote for
getting rid of ctrl-a as the kdb break sequence...

Under Solaris, you hit Stop-A on a keyboard or send a break signal on a
serial line to break into the debugger (if it is on, normally this would
bring you to the prom).  I have been meaning to implement the same thing
on the sparc64 port.

what is the problem with using the serial break to get into kdb?

-tduffy

-- 
Thomas Duffy <Thomas.Duffy.99 at alumni.brown.edu>
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