Re: Is the new generic KGDB patch in upstream-akpm?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:21:33PM +0100, Daniel Laird wrote:

> I am trying to respin the patch to add pnx833x support to linux 2.6.27.
> I wanted to patch against the new generic kernel KGDB patch.
> So I removed gdb-hook etc.
> 
> However when I compile I get
> arch/mips/kernel/built-in.o: In function `early_console_write':
> early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x1450): undefined reference to `prom_putchar'
> early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x1450): relocation truncated to fit:
> R_MIPS_26 against `prom_putchar'
> early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x145c): undefined reference to `prom_putchar'
> early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x145c): relocation truncated to fit:
> R_MIPS_26 against `prom_putchar'
> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> These functions were defined in my gdb-hook.c.  Do I need to move
> these somewhere else now? Or just not support EARLY_PRINTK etc.

Bad choice - early printk has no relation whatsoever to GDB - though both
might end bitbanging the same serial, so early printk code should live
in a different file.

  Ralf