Hello Piyush, I'm not really an expert, so I'll help only with what I know. Read below.
I'm also relaying this message to the public list, so they can help you further, possibly correcting me if I'm wrong :o) []'s, Scop mailto:scop at digitel.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------ It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 4:49:15 AM, you wrote: Aa> Hello Ricardo, Aa> Thanks a lot for your replies. <snip> Aa> Actually my requirement is to have printk messages and kgdb prints coming Aa> from this uart. Is this possible to have printk-msgs while running kernel Aa> in kgdb mode? Sorry, I never used kgdb on my custom board (we have a BDI2000!). Aa> Sometimes my requirement is to connect some other serial device to the Aa> uart and that time i want to store printk messages some where else or Aa> dump through network-interface. AFAIK, you can always get printk messages through /proc/kmsg. I don't know if there's an already implemented way of inhibiting them from going to the debug console. Aa> After going through the arch/ppc/8*_io/uart.c files, I have the Aa> following doubts :- Aa> 1. After rs_8xx_init() is called, do the printk messages come out Aa> of this port using serial_console_write() function? No, AFAIK. Aa> rs_8xx_init() is called from tty_init() from chr_dev_init() Aa> which will also call init's() of other character drivers, whose Aa> debugging printk's i want to come through this port. Aa> 2. If not, is it the case that this uart is unregistered from list Aa> of consoles? No, neither that. The uart port is used for both purposes concurrently. Aa> Regards, Aa> Piyush. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
