[openbeos] Re: Some freezes...

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > François Revol wrote:
> Yeah... certainly not hasle free.
> M$ forced everyone to remove them, and now they have to force 
> everyone 
> to cripple high-level port controllers with debug hardware (Firewire 
> can do that, and the USB2 specs require the controller to have a 
> debug 
> port)...

It's actually optional only :-/

> I guess that's called evolution.
> 
> I had to hack in support for parallel debug output in Zeta cause my 
> laptop didn't have a serial port...
> We'll have to implement support for FW/USB2 soon anyway, as // port 
> is 
> also disappearing. That can probably be contributed to Haiku someday.

The problem is also that you need extra hardware for debugging (which 
is not that cheap either).

> > R5/Zeta prints all messages to screen if you enable 'save mode'. Is 
> > there an option in Haiku to get this behaviour?
> No "Enable console debugging" option ?

Not yet, but it's on the to do list :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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