On 2012-09-11 17:11, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 11.09.2012 17:04, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >> On 2012-09-11 16:48, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 11.09.2012 16:38, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >>>> We have debugcon these days to listen on those ports that receive debug >>>> messages. Also drop the others that have no effect anymore. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> >>> >>> This looks pretty identical to Hervé's "pc: remove DEBUG_BIOS define and >>> QEMU exit I/O ports", doesn't it? The discussion there concluded that >>> compatibility needs to be provided for older machines. >> >> I'm not removing any behaviour that can be achieved _without_ >> additionally patching QEMU. I'm just removing practically dead debug >> code, leaving in the bits that do have effects. > > Didn't want to argue about that, just pointing you to the discussion > thread that you have snipped above. It was Anthony's request. ;)
The 2nd patch cited did more than what my patch does by making those ports optional (and apparently default off) that do have effect. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
