From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Better describe ACPI_DEBUGGER Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:39:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20151130223908.GH3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20151130213215.GC3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1645670.Yj5okVLt1U@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:36196 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754036AbbK3WjN (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:39:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1645670.Yj5okVLt1U@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, acpi@linux.intel.com On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:43:26PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, November 30, 2015 10:32:15 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For a brief moment I was tricked into thinking that: > > > > In-kernel debugger (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_DEBUGGER) [N/y/?] (NEW) > > > > might be something useful. Better describe the feature to reduce > > such confusion. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) > > Applied, thanks! > > I should have caught that, sorry for the sloppiness. n/p, for a brief moment I thought about things like a GDB stub running in SMM -- which would be entirely awesome if it had dedicated IO through a BMC or simple serial. Then I thought about all the kvm-gdb-stub fail I've encountered over the years and figured this would never work, seeing how BIOSes are never updated/fixed.