Hi Roland, Roland McGrath <rol...@hack.frob.com> skribis:
> I think what we used to say was that you should try to do debugging with > sub-hurds where the console port is faked with io ports (I think). The thing is that I was debugging a system cross-built from scratch, so sub-hurds were not an option. > We definitely don't want to clutter up ld.so with stuff that is only > for debugging early boot. I think it would be better to have > serverboot supply a trivial io server on the fd ports it hands to the > initial processes, that translates to console device_write calls in a > very simple way. Here the ‘ld.so /hurd/exec’ command line comes from GRUB and is spawned by Mach directly (serverboot has been deprecated for years and is no longer in the repository.) Adding a term server or similar in the early boot process seems tricky and would probably require tweaking the boot process in diskfs, exec, & co. in ugly ways, AIUI. Thanks, Ludo’.
