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2008-01-30x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)Bernhard Kaindl
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch() to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early. If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that, all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled in standard, non-debug kernels. With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers, if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter. In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire. An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger, without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA access is granted. A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt and I've put a copy online at ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it another copy of it is online at: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-02-08the scheduled IEEE1394_OUI_DB removalAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled IEEE1394_OUI_DB removal. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Update: Also remove drivers/ieee1394/.gitignore. Remove now unused struct members in drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.h. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2006-12-07ieee1394: only build OUI database files if config enabledRandy Dunlap
Only build IEEE1394 OUI database files if the config option is enabled. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2005-11-18Remove amdtp, cmp drivers.Jody McIntyre
Remove the Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver and the Connection Management Procedures driver. These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for example.) Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!