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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2007-12-11 14:48:24 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-12-11 15:43:35 +1100
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[POWERPC] Early debug forces console log level to max
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 <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
index 6a79fe43e229..d20ccf5f2ca9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ config BOOTX_TEXT
config PPC_EARLY_DEBUG
bool "Early debugging (dangerous)"
+ help
+ Say Y to enable some early debugging facilities that may be available
+ for your processor/board combination. Those facilities are hacks
+ intended to debug problems early during boot, this should not be
+ enabled in a production kernel.
+ Note that enabling this will also cause the kernel default log level
+ to be pushed to max automatically very early during boot
choice
prompt "Early debugging console"