From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757830AbXITFxc (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754343AbXITFxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:53:24 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:32774 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754300AbXITFxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:53:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:53:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Jason Wessel , Kamalesh Babulal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amitkale@linsyssoft.com, trini@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 powerpc - kgdb is broken Message-Id: <20070919225300.8c41a2e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <18162.967.558342.829193@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <46F114D2.40809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <46F1700D.2020205@windriver.com> <20070919123629.05e3a06c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18162.967.558342.829193@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:23:19 +1000 Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:53:01 -0500 Jason Wessel wrote: > > > > > I am not exactly sure how to fix this... > > > > > > Another git tree is overriding the patch to include/asm-powerpc/kgdb.h > > > in the -mm tree. The patches as I provide them against 2.6.23-rc6 for > > > KGDB work correctly for ppc/powerpc in 32 and 64 bit modes and compile > > > correctly. > > > > > > At issue is that someone merged a bogus copy of asm-ppc/kgdb.h from the > > > git tree in -mm that is called: git-powerpc.patch. > > > > Yeah, this was pointed out and largely ignored. > > > > I'm afraid you'll have to wait until that powerpc stuff hits mainline > > and then fix it all up. > > I could remove all the kgdb support from arch/powerpc as a first step, > if that would make it easier to pull in the new stuff... > I don't know if/when the new stuff will be merged - it's missed 2.6.24. It might be better to proceed as you intended. Presumably it won't be too hard to hack things back into shape.