The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.

CC: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    6 ++++++
 drivers/serial/kgdboc.c             |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index c6936b2..aaeb992 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -708,6 +708,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in 
the file
                        The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
                        console.
 
+       ekgdboc=        [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
+                       ekgdboc=kbd
+
+                       This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
+                       the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
+
        eata=           [HW,SCSI]
 
        edd=            [EDD]
diff --git a/drivers/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/serial/kgdboc.c
index 201cdf5..e8557a5 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/kgdboc.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/kgdboc.c
@@ -236,6 +236,25 @@ static struct kgdb_io kgdboc_io_ops = {
        .post_exception         = kgdboc_post_exp_handler,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE
+/* This is only available if kgdboc is a built in for early debugging */
+int __init kgdboc_early_init(char *opt)
+{
+       /* save the first character of the config string because the
+        * init routine can destroy it.
+        */
+       char save_ch;
+
+       kgdboc_option_setup(opt);
+       save_ch = config[0];
+       init_kgdboc();
+       config[0] = save_ch;
+       return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("ekgdboc", kgdboc_early_init);
+#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE */
+
 module_init(init_kgdboc);
 module_exit(cleanup_kgdboc);
 module_param_call(kgdboc, param_set_kgdboc_var, param_get_string, &kps, 0644);
-- 
1.6.4.rc1


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