Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] Kill kgdb_serial

From: George Anzinger
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 16:37:56 EST


Tom Rini wrote:
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I am afraid I don't quite understand what he was saying other than early init stuff. On of the problems with trying early init stuff, by the way, is that a lot of things depend on having alloc up and that happens rather late in the game.


I assume you aren't talking about kgdb stuff here (or what would be the
point of going so early) but I believe he was talking about allowing for
stuff that could be done early, to be done early.

One of the issues with the UART set up is registering the interrupt handler with the kernel. It will fail if alloc is not up. The -mm patch does two things with this. a) It tries every getchar to register the interrupt handler, and b) it has a module init entry to register it. This last will happen late in the bring up and is safe. a) is there to get it ASAP if you are actually using kgdb during the bring up.


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