El Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:19:37AM -0400 Robert P. J. Day ha dit: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > > ... snip ... > > > some time ago i had a similar (the same?) problem, trying to debug > > an ARM device using kgdb. in my case the problem was that the serial > > port driver (AMBA PL010) lacked the poll_get_char() and > > poll_put_char() operations, which seem to be necessary for debugging > > over console. > > > > if you happen to use a device with AMBA PL010 try again after > > applying the patch below. otherwise you might want to check if the > > driver of your serial port implements the poll functions > > > > diff --git a/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c b/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c > > index 58a4879..4b27537 100644 > > --- a/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c > > +++ b/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c > > @@ -308,6 +308,32 @@ static void pl010_break_ctl(struct uart_port *port, int break_state) > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uap->port.lock, flags); > > perhaps a dumb question, but where is that source file? it's not in > the current linux git tree. are you sure? matze@darwin:/data/devel/kernel/trees/linux-2.6$ git tag | tail -n 1 v2.6.31-rc6 matze@darwin:/data/devel/kernel/trees/linux-2.6$ ls drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c -rw-r--r-- 1 matze matze 19490 2009-06-22 11:45 drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c -- Matthias Kaehlcke Embedded Linux Engineer Barcelona La posibilidad de realizar un suenyo es lo que hace que la vida sea interesante .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ