[haiku-development] Re: USB Keyboard and Debugger
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:47:26 +1100
On 2009-02-12, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:37 PM, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here is another thought on this.
> >
> > What if we had a text file that the kernel reads on startup that
> > contains a list of commands to automatically execute and write the
> > results to the syslog when the debugger is called.
>
> The problem is, if you're in the kernel debugger then you're probably
> there because of a panic, the implication of which is that something
> went wrong in the kernel's state. Ergo there's no guarantee you can
> actually write to the disk without corrupting the FS at that point
> (since it may well be the disk or filesystem drivers that triggered
> the panic state), so that's a somewhat dangerous idea.
True, writing it all to the screen would be just as good.
--
Cheers
David
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