You can build an initrd to get around initial console problems.
-Amit

On Monday 09 July 2007 17:54, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I get the problem with linux-2.6.15.5 kgdb patch
> >
> > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ kgdbwait kgdb8250=io,0x3f8,115200,4
> >
> > (the simple serial command line seems doesn't work even if I define the
> > KGDB_SIMPLE_SERIAL,I mean "kgdb8250=0,115200", it always use
>
>     CONFIG_KGDB_SIMPLE_SERIAL doesn't influence the option parsing. With
> this option, you can only "compile in" the port and baudrate. However, the
> .PDF manual seems to contradict it (kernel documentation doesn't).
>
> > kgdb8250_opt() to check if there are full 4 arguments)
> >
> > Well,the output:
> > .....
> > [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
> > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> > .....
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> > SELinux:  Disabled at runtime.
> > SELinux:  Unregistering netfilter hooks
> > ...
> >
> > It report "unable to open an initial console" here,
>
>     Are you sure you were *not* using the serial console?
>
> > So the target machine get off the host debug session and continue to
> > output message on its console.
>
>     I don't follow -- if it's unable to open initial console, how could it
> continue?
>
> > Check again the host gdb session,I have to press CTRL+C to interrupt
> > it.seems the tty irq get crash.
> > The KGDB serial module has some thing wrong here?
> >
> > *********************************************
> >
> > Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> > breakpoint () at kernel/kgdb.c:1872
> > 1872atomic_set(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint, 0);
> > (gdb) l
> > 1867
> > 1868atomic_set(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint, 1);
> > 1869wmb();
> > 1870BREAKPOINT();
> > 1871wmb();
> > 1872atomic_set(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint, 0);
> > 1873}
> > 1874
> > 1875EXPORT_SYMBOL(breakpoint);
> > 1876
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  breakpoint () at kernel/kgdb.c:1872
> > #1  0xc0232b6b in kgdb8250_interrupt (irq=Variable "irq" is not
> > available.
> > ) at drivers/serial/8250_kgdb.c:163
> > #2  0xc013b78e in handle_IRQ_event (irq=4, regs=0xc03a6fa4,
> > action=0xd8df0f20)
> >     at kernel/irq/handle.c:88
> > #3  0xc013b845 in __do_IRQ (irq=4, regs=0xc03a6fa4) at
> > kernel/irq/handle.c:173
> > #4  0xc01052a6 in do_IRQ (regs=0xc03a6fa4) at arch/i386/kernel/irq.c:98
> > Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>
>     I don't see any trace of crash here. Since you pressed Ctrl-C, you got
> into 8250_kgdb.c's interrupt handler, that's all...
>
> WBR, Sergei
>
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