[PATCH v3 1/2] powerpc/xmon: Paged output for paca display
Sam Bobroff
sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com
Thu Oct 15 09:24:38 AEDT 2015
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:39:09PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 11:50 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> > The paca display is already more than 24 lines, which can be problematic
> > if you have an old school 80x24 terminal, or more likely you are on a
> > virtual terminal which does not scroll for whatever reason.
> >
> > This patch adds a new command ".", which takes a single (hex) numeric
> > argument: lines per page. It will cause the output of "dp" and "dpa"
> > to be broken into pages, if necessary.
> >
> > Sample output:
> >
> > 0:mon> .10
>
> So what about making it "#" rather than "." ?
>
> cheers
Sure, although we'll have to do a better job than the other commands in the help text ;-)
(They use "#" to indicate a hex number and "##" is just going to be confusing.)
Do you want me to respin? (I'm happy for you to just adjust the patch.)
Cheers,
Sam.
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