On 05/14/2010 05:00 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 16:39:59 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/14/2010 04:34 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: >>>> I'm not lamenting that fact, because my experience is that what ends up >>>> replacing it is often far worse. Consider UARTs -- no MMU dependencies >>>> at all, can be accessed with four lines of assembly, and compare it to >>>> EHCI debug port, the driver for which is over 900 lines in the Linux >>>> kernel -- and that assumes that you're already in flat mode. >>> >>> Heh, you're so old and crufty! >> >> I know. Debugging is so 20th century. > > Yeah, get with the times. Debugging on today's machines means you have > to look up register block offsets in ACPI, run some AML to setup your > debug port, and then load a microkernel onto the debug device to get > your vnc enabled debug console! > An excellent plan! Cannot fail! -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
