Re: PPC KGDB changes and some help?

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:21:28PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:42:17AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:23:12PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Here it is: ppc kgdb from timesys kernel is available at
> > > http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/kgdb-2/linux-2.6.1-kgdb-2.1.0.tar.bz2
> > > 
> > > This is my attempt at extracting kgdb from TimeSys kernel. It works well in 
> > > TimeSys kernel, so blame me if above patch doesn't work.
> > 
> > Okay, here's my first patch against this.
> 
> And dependant upon this is a patch to fixup the rest of the common PPC
> code, as follows:

And this should have also been in this patch:

--- 1.49/arch/ppc/Kconfig	Wed Jan 21 12:21:23 2004
+++ edited/arch/ppc/Kconfig	Wed Jan 21 12:47:52 2004
@@ -1374,12 +1374,11 @@
 	  this option if you do not want to compromise on speed.
 
 config KGDB_CONSOLE
-	bool "Enable serial console thru kgdb port"
-	depends on KGDB && 8xx || 8260
+	bool "KGDB: Console messages through gdb"
+	depends on KGDB
 	help
-	  If you enable this, all serial console messages will be sent
-	  over the gdb stub.
-	  If unsure, say N.
+	  If you say Y here, console messages will appear through gdb.
+	  Other consoles such as tty or ttyS will continue to work as usual.
 
 config XMON
 	bool "Include xmon kernel debugger"

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Tom Rini
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