Re: remote debugging via FireWire (was What will be in the x86-64/x86 2.6.21 merge)

Andi Kleen
2007-02-10T14:03:37Z

On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:51, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote at LKML:
> ...
> > Not likely to make .21:
> ...
> > - Early firewire support for firescope at early boot
> ...
>
> Was it seen in canonical patch format on a mailinglist before?

Don't know.

> Is it Bernhard Kaindl's ohci1394_early?
> http://www.suse.de/~bk/firewire/

Yes.
>
> Would be good to put this on the usual patch-submission road in order to
> prep it for 2.6.22. Could be handled via linux1394-2.6.git, although a
> different channel where the actual users of this facility watch would
> IMO be more appropriate.

It's more related to arch code than firewire, so I thought i would
handle it. But you can too if you want. It definitely needs much
more review anyways.

> A mostly unrelated note: A simple to set up remote-dmesg utility would
> be nice to have on the terminal side.

ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/firescope/

-Andi