Re: [PATCH] acpi: Better describe ACPI_DEBUGGER

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:43:26PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 30, 2015 10:32:15 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For a brief moment I was tricked into thinking that:
> > 
> >   In-kernel debugger (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_DEBUGGER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
> > 
> > might be something useful. Better describe the feature to reduce
> > such confusion.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> I should have caught that, sorry for the sloppiness.

n/p, for a brief moment I thought about things like a GDB stub running
in SMM -- which would be entirely awesome if it had dedicated IO through
a BMC or simple serial.

Then I thought about all the kvm-gdb-stub fail I've encountered over the
years and figured this would never work, seeing how BIOSes are never
updated/fixed.
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