Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 powerpc - kgdb is broken

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 01:23:39 EST


Andrew Morton writes:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:53:01 -0500 Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am not exactly sure how to fix this...
> >
> > Another git tree is overriding the patch to include/asm-powerpc/kgdb.h
> > in the -mm tree. The patches as I provide them against 2.6.23-rc6 for
> > KGDB work correctly for ppc/powerpc in 32 and 64 bit modes and compile
> > correctly.
> >
> > At issue is that someone merged a bogus copy of asm-ppc/kgdb.h from the
> > git tree in -mm that is called: git-powerpc.patch.
>
> Yeah, this was pointed out and largely ignored.
>
> I'm afraid you'll have to wait until that powerpc stuff hits mainline
> and then fix it all up.

I could remove all the kgdb support from arch/powerpc as a first step,
if that would make it easier to pull in the new stuff...

Paul.
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