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authorOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de>2005-09-03 15:55:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>2005-09-05 00:06:01 -0700
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[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>
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diff --git a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug
index 46b1ce58da3b..f16a5030527b 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"