From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amitkale@linsyssoft.com,
trini@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 powerpc - kgdb is broken
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:07:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FCD968.8090304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070920073817.GA28202@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:23:19PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>
> Given that the existing powerpc kgdb bits didn't seem to work at all when
> I tried them that seems like a perfectly fine thing to do.
>
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Hi Paul,
The kgdb is also broken with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 on the powerpc .
The below patch disables the kgdb from getting compiled over
powerpc platform.
Signed-off-by : Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
--- linux-2.6.23-rc8/lib/Kconfig.kgdb 2007-09-28 06:33:37.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc8/lib/~Kconfig.kgdb 2007-09-28 23:48:33.000000000 +0530
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ config KGDB
bool "KGDB: kernel debugging with remote gdb"
select WANT_EXTRA_DEBUG_INFORMATION
select KGDB_ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_INFO if X86_64
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (ARM || X86 || MIPS || (SUPERH && !SUPERH64) || IA64 || PPC)
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (ARM || X86 || MIPS || (SUPERH && !SUPERH64) || IA64 || !PPC)
help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to remotely debug the
kernel using gdb. Documentation of kernel debugger is available
--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 12:23 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 powerpc - kgdb is broken Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-19 18:53 ` Jason Wessel
2007-09-19 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-20 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-28 10:37 ` Kamalesh Babulal [this message]
2007-09-28 10:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28 12:28 ` 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 powerpc - kgdb is broken [Resending PATCH] Kamalesh Babulal
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