* [PATCH] document udbg-immortal
@ 2011-06-01 1:22 Christian Kujau
2011-06-01 22:03 ` Jesse Larrew
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From: Christian Kujau @ 2011-06-01 1:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
Back in 2006 the "udbg-immortal" kernel option has been introduced:
> commit 3b5e905ee3bd23e9311951890aba57a0dbc81ca4
> Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed Jun 7 12:06:20 2006 +1000
>
> [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option
...but I could not find it documented anywhere in the sources.
This patch adds it to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index cc85a92..5d0df23 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2520,6 +2520,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
+ udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
+ happen after console_init() and before a proper
+ console driver takes over, this boot options might
+ help "seeing" what's going on.
+
uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
Thanks,
Christian.
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* Re: [PATCH] document udbg-immortal
2011-06-01 1:22 [PATCH] document udbg-immortal Christian Kujau
@ 2011-06-01 22:03 ` Jesse Larrew
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From: Jesse Larrew @ 2011-06-01 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
On 05/31/2011 08:22 PM, Christian Kujau wrote:
> + udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
> + happen after console_init() and before a proper
> + console driver takes over, this boot options might
> + help "seeing" what's going on.
> +
Thanks for documenting this!
Suggested grammatical tweaks:
s/options/option/
s/help "seeing"/help to "see"/
--
Jesse Larrew
Software Engineer, Linux on Power Kernel Team
IBM Linux Technology Center
Phone: (512) 973-2052 (T/L: 363-2052)
jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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