Historical use of "traps"

[George Georgalis]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:44:36PM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >    Actually what I really want is a PCI card that allows me to run GDB
> >    from another box without having to do any code interfacing at all.
>
>I was under the impression that the firewire console access
>offered something like that, i.e. reading and writing RAM
>locations directly from the IEEE1394 controller without any
>need for a driver.  At least the FreeBSD manpage sounds
>like that (but I've never used it, so I might misunderstand
>how it works).

Right. I saw Greg Lehey's "Debugging Kernel Problems" at the May BSDCan
2005, and he demonstrated the technique in FBSD. See page 44 of his
tutorial.

Debugging kernel problems: tutorial and slides. 
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/

apparently the freebsd 6.0, gdb(4) has some specific instructions too.

[Anybody got a P.E.T. emulator and rat trap game?]

// George


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