From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38318048.B414DC12@schweiz.ch> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:03:20 +0100 From: Andreas Tobler Reply-To: toa@pop.agri.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ani Joshi CC: Dev-Linux Subject: Re: Kernel debugging?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Ani, Ani Joshi wrote: > > andreas, > since you're on a powermac and using BootX, you can use > prom_print() to print debuging info before start_kernel, there after you This what I'm doing now. But I feel a bit lost when it goes into asm. > can just use printk(). instead of putting a million prints all over the > place, you should look at the patches between 2.3.25-2.3.28 and see what > was changed in ppc/kernel or ppc/mm , This I also did, on the mm side do I have to include both mm and arch/ppc/mm? Here many changes happened. > i've booted 2.3.25 on my 7200 And I could boot a stock 2.3.26 with changes in asm-ppc/fcntl.h (O_LARGEFILE ....) >but i have had no time lately to try 2.3.28, perhaps > later today i will work on it. On my side it's mostly a question of learning, a fixed problem is nice, a self found and fixed problem is even nicer :-) Thanks for your hints Andreas -- | Andreas Tobler | CH-8004 Zuerich | E-Mail: andreas.tobler@alcatel.ch | a.tobler@schweiz.ch ----------------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/