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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:40:21 -0600
From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] KGDB: Major refactoring
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> As most changes are tightly coupled, this refactoring patch for
> KGDB_8250 as well as the core and the new KGDBOC driver comes as a
> single chunk. The changes are:
>  - Reorganized configuration: I/O drivers can be independently
>    configured as module or built-in
>  - Dynamic reconfiguration for KGDB_8250 (just like for KGDBOC)
>  - Reworked KGDB_8250 configuration string format
>  - attachwait removed, arming the debugger via assigning an I/O driver
>    implies "attachwait"
>  - Cleaned up I/O driver managment of the core
>  - Matured the various boot-up, configure, unconfigure code paths for
>    both I/O drivers
>  - IRQ vs. KGDB_CONSOLE-output SMP race fixed for KGDB_8250
>  - Reduced and cleaned up hooks into serial_core/8250
>  - Kconfig cleanups
>
> What we no longer have:
>  - Simple serial configuration for _early_ debugging, use the io/mem
>    format instead or wait until the debugger is able to resolve "ttySx"
>    during late-init
>
> To-do:
>  - KGDBOC does not yet cleanly interacts with the TTY subsystem to
>    attach to some console
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
>   

Jan,

I pulled in all your changes and made some minor white space fixes. 

I started the 2.6.25 branch with all Ingo's changes, your changes and
several additional patches I received.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git;a=summary

Thanks,
Jason.