From: Olaf Hering Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:58 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] ppc64: update xmon helptext X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~898 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b749bfcd1be72f8cb8310e1cac12825bda029432;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] ppc64: update xmon helptext xmon will do nothing but noise on a G5 if BOOTX_TEXT is not enabled. mention the recognized kernel cmdline options for xmon. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Cc: Paul Mackeras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug index 46b1ce58da..f16a503052 100644 --- a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug @@ -41,10 +41,19 @@ config XMON help Include in-kernel hooks for the xmon kernel monitor/debugger. Unless you are intending to debug the kernel, say N here. + Make sure to enable also CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT on Macs. Otherwise + nothing will appear on the screen (xmon writes directly to the + framebuffer memory). + The cmdline option 'xmon' or 'xmon=early' will drop into xmon very + early during boot. 'xmon=on' will just enable the xmon debugger hooks. + 'xmon=off' will disable the debugger hooks if CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT is set. config XMON_DEFAULT bool "Enable xmon by default" depends on XMON + help + xmon is normally disabled unless booted with 'xmon=on'. + Use 'xmon=off' to disable xmon init during runtime. config PPCDBG bool "Include PPCDBG realtime debugging"