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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd February 11, 2003
29.Dt DCONSCHAT 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm dconschat
33.Nd user interface to
34.Xr dcons 4
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm
37.Op Fl brvwRT1
38.Op Fl e Ar escape-char
39.Op Fl h Ar hz
40.Op Fl C Ar console_port
41.Op Fl G Ar gdb_port
42.Op Fl M Ar core
43.Op Fl N Ar system
44.Nm
45.Op Fl brvwR1
46.Op Fl h Ar hz
47.Op Fl C Ar console_port
48.Op Fl G Ar gdb_port
49.Op Fl a Ar address
50.Op Fl u Ar bus_num
51.Fl t Ar target_eui64
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55utility is designed to provide a way for users to access
56.Xr dcons 4
57(dumb console device) on a local or remote system.
58The
59.Nm
60utility interacts with
61.Xr dcons 4
62using
63.Xr kvm 3
64or
65.Xr firewire 4 ,
66and interacts with the user over TTY or TCP/IP.
67To access remote
68.Xr dcons 4
69using
70.Xr firewire 4 ,
71you have to specify target EUI64 address using the
72.Fl t
73option. Physical DMA should be enabled on the target machine for access
74via FireWire.
75.Pp
76The
77.Nm
78utility and the
79.Xr dcons 4
80driver communicate using 2 ports, one for the console port and another
81for remote
82.Xr gdb 1
83port.
84Users are supposed to access
85.Nm
86using TTY,
87.Xr telnet 1
88and
89.Xr gdb 1 .
90You can specify listen ports for console and
91.Xr gdb 1
92port using the
93.Fl C
94and
95.Fl G
96options respectively.
97The port number 0 has special meaning that
98current TTY (stdin/stdout) is used instead of TCP/IP.
99A negative port number will disable the port.
100By analogy with
101.Xr pty 4
102device, the
103.Xr dcons 4
104acts as a slave device and
105.Nm
106acts as a master device with
107.Xr telnetd 8 .
108.Pp
109Typed characters are normally transmitted directly to
110.Xr dcons 4 .
111A escape character (the default is
112.Ql ~
113) appearing as the first character of a line is an escape signal; the
114following are recognized:
115.Bl -tag -width ident
116.It Ic ~.
117Drop the connection and exit.
118.It Ic ~^G
119Invoke kgdb on the terminal on which dconschat is running.
120.It Ic ~^R
121Reset the target over FireWire if a reset address is registered in Configuration ROM.
122.It Ic ~^Z
123Suspend the dconschat process.
124.El
125.Pp
126The following options are supported.
127.Bl -tag -width indent
128.It Fl b
129Translate Ctrl-C to ALT_BREAK (CR +
130.Ql ~
131+ Ctrl-B) on
132.Xr gdb 1
133port.
134.It Fl r
135Replay old buffer on connection.
136.It Fl v
137Verbose debug output.
138Multiple
139.Fl v
140options increase verbosity.
141.It Fl w
142Listen on a wildcard address rather than localhost.
143.It Fl R
144Read-only.
145Do not write anything to the
146.Xr dcons 4
147buffer.
148.It Fl T
149Enable ad-hoc workaround for the TELNET protocol to
150remove unnecessary byte sequences.
151It should be set when you access
152.Nm
153using
154.Xr telnet 1 .
155.It Fl 1
156One-shot.
157Read available buffer, then exit.
158This implies the
159.Fl r
160option.
161.It Fl e Ar escape-char
162Specify escape character.
163The default is '~'.
164.It Fl h Ar hz
165Specify polling rate.
166The default value is 100.
167.It Fl C Ar console_port
168Specify the console port.
169The default value is 0 (stdin/stdout).
170.It Fl G Ar gdb_port
171Specify
172.Xr gdb 1
173port.
174The default value is \-1 (disabled).
175.It Fl M Ar core
176Specify core file.
177.It Fl N Ar system
178Specify system file such as
179.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel .
180.It Fl t Ar target_eui64
181Specify the 64-bit extended unique identifier of the target,
182and use FireWire to access remote
183.Xr dcons 4 .
184.It Fl a Ar address
185Specify the physical I/O address of the
186.Xr dcons 4
187buffer.
188See
189.Xr dcons 4
190for details.
191If this option is not specified,
192.Nm
193tries to get the address from the Configuration ROM on the target.
194You are supposed to enable
195.Xr dcons_crom 4
196on the target to omit this option.
197.It Fl u Ar bus_num
198Specify FireWire bus number.
199The default is 0.
200.El
201.Sh FILES
202.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
203.It Pa /dev/fwmem0.0
204.It Pa /dev/mem
205.It Pa /dev/kmem
206.El
207.Sh EXAMPLES
208To use
209.Nm
210with FireWire for remote
211.Xr dcons 4 ,
212you have to specify the EUI64 of the target.
213You can obtain EUI64 by running
214.Xr fwcontrol 8
215without options.
216The first EUI64 is of the host running
217.Xr fwcontrol 8
218and others on the bus follow.
219.Bd -literal -offset indent
220# fwcontrol
2212 devices (info_len=2)
222node           EUI64          status
223   1  77-66-55-44-33-22-11-00      0
224   0  00-11-22-33-44-55-66-77      1
225.Ed
226.Pp
227The EUI64 does not change unless you change the hardware
228as the ethernet address.
229.Pp
230Now we can run
231.Nm .
232.Bd -literal -offset indent
233# dconschat -br -G 12345 -t 00-11-22-33-44-55-66-77
234.Ed
235.Pp
236You will get console output of the target and login prompt if a
237.Xr getty 8
238is running on
239.Xr dcons 4 .
240You can break to DDB with ALT_BREAK (CR +
241.Ql ~
242+ Ctrl-B)
243if
244.Dv DDB
245and
246.Dv ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
247are enabled in the target kernel.
248To quit the session, type CR +
249.Ql ~
250+
251.Ql \&.
252in the console port.
253.Pp
254Using
255.Xr gdb 1
256port is almost the same as remote
257.Xr gdb 1
258over serial line except
259using TCP/IP instead of
260.Pa /dev/cu* .
261See
262.Sx "On-line Kernel Debugging Using Remote GDB"
263section of
264.%T "The FreeBSD Developers Handbook"
265and
266.Xr gdb 4
267for details.
268.Bd -literal -offset indent
269% gdb -k kernel.debug
270(kgdb) target remote :12345
271.Ed
272.Pp
273Once
274.Xr gdb 1
275is attached and you specified the
276.Fl b
277option to
278.Nm ,
279typing Ctrl-C in
280.Xr gdb 1
281causes a break to debugger.
282.Pp
283The following command gets the console log from the crash dump:
284.Bd -literal -offset indent
285# dconschat -1 -M vmcore.0 -N kernel.0
286.Ed
287.Pp
288If you want access to the console using
289.Xr telnet 1 ,
290try the following:
291.Bd -literal -offset indent
292# dconschat -rTC 5555 &
293# telnet localhost 5555
294.Ed
295.Pp
296You may want to keep logging console output of several machines.
297.Nm conserver-com
298in the Ports collection may help you.
299Insert the following lines in
300.Pa conserver.cf :
301.Bd -literal -offset indent
302console local {
303	master localhost;
304	type exec;
305	exec /usr/sbin/dconschat -rh 25;
306}
307console remote {
308	master localhost;
309	type exec;
310	exec /usr/sbin/dconschat -rh 25 -t 00-11-22-33-44-55-66-77;
311}
312.Ed
313.Sh SEE ALSO
314.Xr gdb 1 ,
315.Xr telnet 1 ,
316.Xr kvm 3 ,
317.Xr dcons 4 ,
318.Xr dcons_crom 4 ,
319.Xr ddb 4 ,
320.Xr firewire 4 ,
321.Xr fwohci 4 ,
322.Xr gdb 4 ,
323.Xr eui64 5 ,
324.Xr fwcontrol 8
325.Sh AUTHORS
326.An Hidetoshi Shimokawa Aq Mt simokawa@FreeBSD.org
327.Sh BUGS
328This utility is
329.Ud
330