[PATCH] KDB for ppc64 - write to OF stdout instead of console

Keith Owens kaos at sgi.com
Wed May 19 12:11:04 EST 2004


On Tue, 18 May 2004 19:07:54 +0500,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com> wrote:
>Hi Anton,
>
>KDB on ppc64 currently reads input from the OF-stdout (udbg_getc_poll)
>while the output (kdb_printf) is through the registered consoles. This
>leads to problems when working on LPAR mode, where, input is accepted
>through the hmc vterm while output is displayed on the serial console.
>
>Patch inlined removes KDB's dependency on consoles completely for I/O.
>With this patch, we use the OF stdout for both input and output.
>
>This should fix the KDB configuration/usage confusions on ppc64 for
>both LPAR and non-LPAR modes.
>
>Please apply!

Added to my kdb v4.4 tree.


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