From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264108AbTLZVS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:18:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265229AbTLZVS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:18:28 -0500 Received: from citrine.spiritone.com ([216.99.193.133]:39848 "EHLO citrine.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264108AbTLZVS1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:18:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:18:15 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kgdb without serial port Message-ID: <2380000.1072473494@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20031226110851.29ce9fa5.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20031215200640.GA3724@elf.ucw.cz><20031215223438.196295a8.akpm@osdl.org><20031226182740.GA10397@elf.ucw.cz> <20031226110851.29ce9fa5.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > > 2.6 kgdb patches in -mm tree seem to contain kgdb-over-ethernet stuff, >> > > but still require me to fill in serial port interrupt/address. Is >> > > there easy way to make it work without serial port? [This notebook has >> > > none :-(]. >> > >> > That's a bit ugly, but things should still work OK? Give it some random >> > UART address but specify an ethernet connection at boot time - the kgdb >> > stub should never touch the UART. >> >> I found out what was biting me: using 2.95 with kgdb is bad idea. 2.95 >> with kgdb means reboot just after uncompressing kernel -- pretty nasty >> to debug. Please apply, > > I've been using 2.95.3 on and off for ages, no problems? 2.95.4 seems to work as well, or did last time I tried it. Pavel, what version exactly were you using? early_printk might help debugging, if you're interested. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/patches/2.6.0/2.6.0-mjb1/200-early_printk M.