DDB? Debugging kernel?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-01-27 22:39, John <john at starfire.mn.org> wrote:
> OK, folks - I've looked in the Handbook, and I've looked in _The
> Complete FreeBSD_ and I just get more confused.
>
> Is the option DDB gone?  If so, how do you get ddb functions like
> db_readline into the kernel?  _The Complete FreeBSD_ still describes
> it, but the handbook doesn't mention it, and a "grep -i ddb *" in the
> conf directory comes up empty.

It's called KDB now.  /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES contains (among other KDB
related options):

	#
	# Compile with kernel debugger related code.
	#
	options         KDB