[U-Boot] u-boot newbie - question about the 'debug( )' function ...

Jon Loeliger jdl at freescale.com
Wed Jan 14 21:48:55 CET 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:45 -0500, Jonathan Barrow wrote:
> In many of the sources, such as "board.c",  I notice calls to
> 'debug()'.  The syntax looks similar to printf(),   e.g.:  debug
> ("Stack Pointer at: %08lx\n", addr_sp);
> 
> Is this output sent to the BDM, such as bdi2000?  or Ethernet?  posted
> to memory?
> 
> Also, is debug() related to the setting in 'config.mk' :
> 
>      DBGFLAGS= -g # DDEBUG
> 
> I can't seem to locate where it lives, so uncertain how it works.
> 
> Thank You,
> J.J. Barrow


Typically, I just put a "#define DEBUG" in a specific file or
two that I'm interested in.  That has to be done before the
#include of "common.h" to be effective.

Rebuild, reflash, read output on serial port.

HTH,
jdl




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