remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable connected to another computer. My new computer only has USB-ports and ethernet. What kind of cable do I need now to do remote debugging? The old computer also has usb, so I think the connection should be in that

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable connected to another computer. My new computer only has USB-ports and ethernet. What kind of cable do I need now to do remote debugging? The old computer

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/03/2009 15:06 Erik Trulsson said the following: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable connected to another computer. My new computer only has USB-ports and ethernet. What kind of cable do I

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Ronald Klop
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:22:36 +0100, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 26/03/2009 15:06 Erik Trulsson said the following: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable connected to another

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/03/2009 16:33 Ronald Klop said the following: Is that this sio0 one? sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Philipp Ost
Ronald Klop wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:22:36 +0100, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 26/03/2009 15:06 Erik Trulsson said the following: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 27 March 2009 00:52:36 Andriy Gapon wrote: USB won't work for that purpose. It requires far too much kernel support to be useful after a panic. Erik, in fact, there is a special USB (EHCI) mode for such purposes: http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port That's pretty neat :)