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| author | Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> | 2005-09-03 15:55:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org> | 2005-09-05 00:06:01 -0700 |
| commit | b749bfcd1be72f8cb8310e1cac12825bda029432 (patch) | |
| tree | e3555f1e17f9fd83ad49f7f92ba6dfa7f20e7052 /arch/ppc64 | |
| parent | f54bef9e9c84c8dc656c55dc96c1da7b6d1c53d8 (diff) | |
[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 <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug index 46b1ce58da3..f16a5030527 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" |