[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/22] powerpc/mpc85xx: move debug tlb entry after TLB is in known state

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Wed Oct 31 23:44:08 CET 2012


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 01:17:31 AM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>
>> On 10/31/2012 02:37 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/30/2012 04:26:16 AM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>> I'd rather not see this split this up.  This file is too much of a
>>> complicated ifdef mess already.
>>>
>>> The window during which you won't be able to use breakpoints is not that
>>> large.
>>> There are other debugging techniques that can be used.
>>
>>
>> Can you please share the other techniques. It will help us in future.
>
>
> For debugging early boot hangs I usually put a branch-to-self somewhere in
> the sequence, and use CCS to see if we're spinning there or if we went off
> to some exception or other badness.  Then I do a binary search, moving the
> branch to self around, to determine where things went wrong.

LR can be handy to look at too to see what the calling function / branch was.

-M


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