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authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>2020-05-07 23:08:47 +0300
committerDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2020-06-02 17:15:45 +0300
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Documentation: kgdboc: Document new kgdboc_earlycon parameter
The recent patch ("kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb using boot consoles") adds a new kernel command line parameter. Document it. Note that the patch adding the feature does some comparing/contrasting of "kgdboc_earlycon" vs. the existing "ekgdboc". See that patch for more details, but briefly "ekgdboc" can be used _instead_ of "kgdboc" and just makes "kgdboc" do its normal initialization early (only works if your tty driver is already ready). The new "kgdboc_earlycon" works in combination with "kgdboc" and is backed by boot consoles. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.9.I7d5eb42c6180c831d47aef1af44d0b8be3fac559@changeid Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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@@ -274,6 +274,30 @@ don't like this are to hack gdb to send the :kbd:`SysRq-G` for you as well as
on the initial connect, or to use a debugger proxy that allows an
unmodified gdb to do the debugging.
+Kernel parameter: ``kgdboc_earlycon``
+-------------------------------------
+
+If you specify the kernel parameter ``kgdboc_earlycon`` and your serial
+driver registers a boot console that supports polling (doesn't need
+interrupts and implements a nonblocking read() function) kgdb will attempt
+to work using the boot console until it can transition to the regular
+tty driver specified by the ``kgdboc`` parameter.
+
+Normally there is only one boot console (especially that implements the
+read() function) so just adding ``kgdboc_earlycon`` on its own is
+sufficient to make this work. If you have more than one boot console you
+can add the boot console's name to differentiate. Note that names that
+are registered through the boot console layer and the tty layer are not
+the same for the same port.
+
+For instance, on one board to be explicit you might do::
+
+ kgdboc_earlycon=qcom_geni kgdboc=ttyMSM0
+
+If the only boot console on the device was "qcom_geni", you could simplify::
+
+ kgdboc_earlycon kgdboc=ttyMSM0
+
Kernel parameter: ``kgdbwait``
------------------------------