Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/wscons

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > This is strongly related to being able to use DDB even when X11 is
> > running.
> 
> Hmm - once DDB is running you can't tell the X server to
> restore the hardware anymore.
> With vga_post it could be enforced. But that would be one-way,
> one can't return to normal operation after that. So that
> would be an option for crash analysis, not for breakpoints
> and examination.

Sure. But I think it is a lot more common to hit a panic than to want to
use breakpoints and life analysis :-)

Joerg