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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-29 16:53:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-29 16:53:48 -0700 |
| commit | 12679a2d7e3bfbdc7586e3e86d1ca90c46659363 (patch) | |
| tree | d9c00f2e599d1c3e04a349229a6a19906d01f99e /arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | 1c036588772d01655d851f75dffc27c971e072e2 (diff) | |
| parent | b0df89868006517417251e02cc4ce5d4b0165885 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.
This got a fair number of conflicts with the <asm/system.h> split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups. They
all looked pretty trivial, though.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug index 66ca8014ff3..85348a09d65 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug @@ -292,6 +292,22 @@ choice Note that the system will appear to hang during boot if there is nothing connected to read from the DCC. + config DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING + bool "Kernel low-level debug output via semihosting I" + help + Semihosting enables code running on an ARM target to use + the I/O facilities on a host debugger/emulator through a + simple SVC calls. The host debugger or emulator must have + semihosting enabled for the special svc call to be trapped + otherwise the kernel will crash. + + This is known to work with OpenOCD, as wellas + ARM's Fast Models, or any other controlling environment + that implements semihosting. + + For more details about semihosting, please see + chapter 8 of DUI0203I_rvct_developer_guide.pdf from ARM Ltd. + endchoice config EARLY_PRINTK |