On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:38:39AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 11:22, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:02:47AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 00:32, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > > Sometimes when my 8500 is particularly busy with SCSI disk I/O in some > > > > ext2 > > > > filesystems, the system drops into the kmon debugger. > > > > > > > > I'm afraid I don't know where it breaks because I don't have a debug > > > > build and > > > > I'm not yet very hip to how to use kmon. > > > > > > xmon you mean ? > > > > > > Tell me what xmon says, that would be a good first step (what cause of > > > entry). Also, copy the values for NIP (PC), LR, and backtrace (obtain > > > this with the "t" command) and send me those values along with the > > > System.map of the kernel you are running. > > > > Mmm, is there a xmon doc or howto or something such ? > > Not really... xmon itself has a short help you can get by pressing "?", but > for > more details, you'd rather look at the source.
Ok, thanks, ... BTW, do you know if a 3 wire null modem cable is enough for viewing bootlog messages on a serial console ? What would be the best tool to look at the serial console from the other side ? Friendly, Sven Luther
