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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:30:57PM -0800, George Anzinger wrote: > Comments below... I'm going to set aside some of the comments, simply because I'm not going to change behavior / content right now, we can do that afterwards. [snip] > >+choice > >+ depends on KGDB_8250 || PPC_SIMPLE_SERIAL > >+ prompt "Debug serial port BAUD" > >+ default KGDB_115200BAUD > >+ help > >+ Gdb and the kernel stub need to agree on the baud rate to be > >+ used. Some systems (x86 family at this writing) allow this to > >+ be configured. > > Should this depend on the archs that can use it? The help is wrong, that's all, it's not arch-dependant, it's driver dependant. > >+config KGDB_IRQ > >+ int "IRQ of the debug serial port" > >+ depends on !KGDB_SIMPLE_SERIAL && (KGDB_8250 || PPC_SIMPLE_SERIAL) > >+ default 4 > >+ help > >+ This is the irq for the debug port. If everything is working > >+ correctly and the kernel has interrupts on a control C to the > >+ port should cause a break into the kernel debug stub. > > I think setserial will also spit this out. And of course, ^C isn't needed now too. > >+config KGDB_THREAD > >+ bool "KGDB: Thread analysis" > >+ depends on KGDB > >+ help > >+ With thread analysis enabled, gdb can talk to kgdb stub to list > >+ threads and to get stack trace for a thread. This option also > >enables > >+ some code which helps gdb get exact status of thread. Thread > >analysis > >+ adds some overhead to schedule and down functions. You can disable > >+ this option if you do not want to compromise on speed. > > Lets remove the overhead and eliminate the need for this option in favor of > always having threads. Works in the mm kgdb... Once it's clean, perhaps. > >+config KGDB_CONSOLE > >+ bool "KGDB: Console messages through gdb" > >+ depends on KGDB > >+ help > >+ If you say Y here, console messages will appear through gdb. > >+ Other consoles such as tty or ttyS will continue to work as usual. > > Might want to warn them of the need to connect prior to the first message > from the kernel.... There is no such need. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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