[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce low-level debug for ARM architecture

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Tue Aug 19 04:14:07 CEST 2014


On 08/16/2014 11:16 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> I have been in trouble for a while to debug some nasty problem
> where neighter a debugger nor printf() function is available.
> 
> I found the lowlevel debug feature in ARM Linux can be used as is
> in U-Boot too.
> 
> I tested this series on our SoCs (32bit ARM, specificly Coretex-A9).
> Because I was not sure about aarch64, I have this feature
> depend on "! ARM64".
> 
> 1/4 and 2/4 refactor a bit and move CONFIG_ARM64 to Kconfig.
> 
> 3/4 imports some source files from Linux 3.16 and
> 4/4 adds the Kconfig menu.

Dear Masahiro,

How do you use this debug facility? Do you print to memory?

I don't know enough to comment on the patch. I don't see CP15 co-process in the
SoC I am debugging.

York




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