Re: [9fans] 9pcf debugging

2008-02-06 Thread Kernel Panic
Lluís Batlle wrote: Thank you all... In fact I managed to get the ethernet driver working at the first code change I tried today! This means that by now I won't try to debug the kernel, but I really like to have known of these kernel debugging techniques. Btw, I had problems with the Rhine

[9fans] 9pcf debugging

2008-02-04 Thread Lluís Batlle
I've seen there is rdbfs for debugging the 9pc kernel through a serial port... The computer the driver fails on doesn't have a serial port. I'd like to the debug the ethernet driver, so I don't have ethernet. :) Any ideas, over the common lot-of-print() ? Thanks in advance.

Re: [9fans] 9pcf debugging

2008-02-04 Thread ron minnich
We had this problem too on LinuxBIOS, and it's a real problem when you've just powered on and have no memory or stack. But some vendors are claiming they have dropped serial to save money, since we have the Universal Serial Bus for serial I/O. Fortunately, the universal serial bus guys finally