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| author | Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> | 2010-05-20 21:04:30 -0500 |
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| committer | Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> | 2010-05-20 21:04:30 -0500 |
| commit | 9731191f75a54c4fa17e9b9b88f3144cf4b47836 (patch) | |
| tree | d9e0addc32948eab6755ba98c92dfb4d995200ce /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 0bb9fef9134cf4fdcfce02f9adc22d3d0725cc29 (diff) | |
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kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debugger
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.
CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index bdce359820bb..4c44d01c67f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging + ekgdboc=kbd + + This is desgined to be used in conjunction with + the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga + eata= [HW,SCSI] edd= [EDD] |