kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c, branch linux-2.6.37.y

powerpc: gamecube/wii: early debugging using usbgecko

2009-12-13T05:24:31Z

Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter as an early debugging console on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles. The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial converter. Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Grant Likely

powerpc/udbg: Fix lost byte during console handover; change LFCR to CRLF

2009-03-11T06:11:34Z

When the console is on a serial port to be driven by serial8250, a character can be lost from the end of the first line in the two-line sequence serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xe0004500 (irq = 42) is a 16550A console handover: boot [udbg0] -> real [ttyS0] This happens because udbg_puts or udbg_write stuff the last byte of the line into the Tx FIFO and return, whereupon the serial8250 initialization code immediately empties that FIFO. The fix: udbg_puts and udbg_write now wait for the Tx FIFO to clear before returning. This delays the system by one additional serial frame time for each line written by udbg, but the effect is not noticeable, a cumulative 17 milliseconds for 200 lines of early printk output at 115200 baud. Also, the routines in udbg_16550.c now emit CRLF instead of LFCR. Linux makes a point of emitting CRLF because, when serial output is captured to a file, LFCR sequences can confuse text editors. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/4/50 for some history. Signed-off-by: Andrew Klossner Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

[POWERPC] Mark udbg console as CON_ANYTIME, ie. callable early in boot

2008-04-24T11:08:11Z

The udbg console should be safe to call basically at any time after boot. It does not need any per-cpu resources or for the cpu to be online, as long as there is a udbg_putc routine hooked up it should work. So mark it as CON_ANYTIME. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Set udbg_console index to 0

2008-04-24T11:08:11Z

Because the udbg_console has CON_ENABLED set, it's possible that when we register it with the console code the index won't be set. This leads to slightly confusing boot messages like: [ 0.000000] console [udbg-1] enabled We could remove CON_ENABLED, but we don't want to do that, we always want the udbg console to be activated, even if the user specified some other console on the command line. The simplest fix seems to be just to set the index to 0 by hand. There is no issue with duplicate udbg consoles, as we guard against registering multiple times in register_early_udbg_console(). Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] 4xx: Add early udbg support for 40x processors

2007-12-23T19:13:03Z

This adds some basic real mode based early udbg support for 40x in order to debug things more easily Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

[POWERPC] Early debug forces console log level to max

2007-12-11T04:43:35Z

This makes the early debug option force the console loglevel to the max. The early debug option is meant to catch messages very early in the kernel boot process, in many cases, before the kernel has a chance to parse the "debug" command line argument. Thus it makes sense when CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG is set, to force the console log level to the max at boot time. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Add early debug console for CPM serial ports.

2007-10-04T01:35:43Z

This code assumes that the ports have been previously set up, with buffers in DPRAM. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood Acked-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

[POWREPC] Fixup a number of modpost warnings on ppc32

2007-07-26T05:16:21Z

Fixed the following warnings: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2934): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'irq_alloc_host' and 'irq_set_default_host') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xb2aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_command_line (between 'register_early_udbg_console' and 'udbg_printf') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xb2b2): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_command_line (between 'register_early_udbg_console' and 'udbg_printf') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe354): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'pcibios_alloc_controller' and 'pci_domain_nr') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x12768): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:update_bridge_resource (between 'quirk_fsl_pcie_transparent' and 'indirect_read_config') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x127a8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:update_bridge_resource (between 'quirk_fsl_pcie_transparent' and 'indirect_read_config') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x17566c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pcibios_fixup_bus (between 'pci_scan_child_bus' and 'pci_scan_bus_parented') Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

[POWERPC] Fix console output getting dropped on platforms without udbg_putc

2007-06-14T01:56:17Z

Previously, registering this early console would just result in dropping early buffered printk output until a udbg_putc was registered. However, commit 69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 clears the CON_PRINTBUFFER flag on the main console when a CON_BOOT (early) console has been registered, resulting in the buffered messages never being displayed to the user. This fixes the problem by making sure we don't register udbg_console on platforms that don't implement udbg_putc. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Acked-by: Mark A. Greer Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2007-05-08T18:50:19Z

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (77 commits) [POWERPC] Abolish powerpc_flash_init() [POWERPC] Early serial debug support for PPC44x [POWERPC] Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc [POWERPC] Add device tree for Ebony [POWERPC] Add powerpc/platforms/44x, disable platforms/4xx for now [POWERPC] MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend [POWERPC] MPIC MSI allocator [POWERPC] Enable MSI mappings for MPIC [POWERPC] Tell Phyp we support MSI [POWERPC] RTAS MSI implementation [POWERPC] PowerPC MSI infrastructure [POWERPC] Rip out the existing powerpc msi stubs [POWERPC] Remove use of 4level-fixup.h for ppc32 [POWERPC] Add powerpc PCI-E reset API implementation [POWERPC] Holly bootwrapper [POWERPC] Holly DTS [POWERPC] Holly defconfig [POWERPC] Add support for 750CL Holly board [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PCI setup [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PHY types ... Fixed conflict in include/asm-powerpc/kdebug.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds