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From: Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@cmst.csiro.au>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: kgdb/Sandpoint -- patch & help needed
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:39:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7803.969334757@msa.cmst.csiro.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net> of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:16:27 +0300." <20000918171627.B4328@hectic.net>


On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:16:27 +0300, Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net> writes:
>... However, with this patch the kernel
>hangs right after saying "Now booting the kernel". I don't even see
>how these changes could affect the boot process so early.

Aha! I was caught by this. When you enable CONFIG_KGDB, a breakpoint is
executed in setup_arch() which is just about the first thing the kernel
does.

The sequence is (very!) roughly (and for the 8xx embedded platform):

_start()
	identify_machine()
	MMU_init()
	start_kernel()
		lock_kernel()
		setup_arch()
			set_debug_traps()	| ifdef CONFIG_KGDB
			breakpoint()		|
			...
		parse_options()
		trap_init()
		init_IRQ()
		...

Solution? Simply start gdb on your host machine and do the following:

	set remotebaud BBBBBB	(if required)

	target remote /dev/...	(serial port on host connected to
				 target kgdb serial port)
	continue

and your kernel will fire up again (I kicked myself when I realised what
was going on). Cheers!
								Murray...


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-19  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alexsh@hectic.net>
2000-09-18 14:16 ` kgdb/Sandpoint -- patch & help needed Alex Shnitman
2000-09-19  3:39   ` Murray Jensen [this message]
2000-09-19 16:39     ` Alex Shnitman
2000-09-19 17:00       ` Dan Malek
2000-09-20 12:34         ` Alex Shnitman
2000-09-19 17:40       ` Mark A. Greer

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