X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fdebugging-via-ohci1394.txt;h=611f5a5499b153c9594ad37e7237f7a35489b3bd;hb=37c2ca24119f7dd89cbbb43833df1e6c5fb3417b;hp=de4804e8b396eb29000b37dd8fa575f5cd7dee8d;hpb=4f4ae0d42680889c62db4e1f3e6b4aa7787a7257;p=karo-tx-linux.git diff --git a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt index de4804e8b396..611f5a5499b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt +++ b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt @@ -36,19 +36,24 @@ available (notebooks) or too slow for extensive debug information (like ACPI). Drivers ------- -The OHCI-1394 drivers in drivers/firewire and drivers/ieee1394 initialize -the OHCI-1394 controllers to a working state and can be used to enable -physical DMA. By default you only have to load the driver, and physical -DMA access will be granted to all remote nodes, but it can be turned off -when using the ohci1394 driver. +The ohci1394 driver in drivers/ieee1394 initializes the OHCI-1394 controllers +to a working state and enables physical DMA by default for all remote nodes. +This can be turned off by ohci1394's module parameter phys_dma=0. -Because these drivers depend on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an -initialization routine which can runs pretty early (long before console_init(), -which makes the printk buffer appear on the console can be called) was written. +The alternative firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical +DMA by default, which is more secure but not suitable for remote debugging. +Compile the driver with CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA (Kernel hacking menu: +Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci) to get unfiltered physical +DMA. + +Because ohci1394 and firewire-ohci depend on the PCI enumeration to be +completed, an initialization routine which runs pretty early has been +implemented for x86. This routine runs long before console_init() can be +called, i.e. before the printk buffer appears on the console. To activate it, enable CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT (Kernel hacking menu: -Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot) and pass the -parameter "ohci1394_dma=early" to the recompiled kernel on boot. +Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot) and pass the parameter +"ohci1394_dma=early" to the recompiled kernel on boot. Tools ----- @@ -59,14 +64,14 @@ be used to view the printk buffer of a remote machine, even with live update. Bernhard Kaindl enhanced firescope to support accessing 64-bit machines from 32-bit firescope and vice versa: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 and he implemented fast system dump (alpha version - read README.txt): -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 There is also a gdb proxy for firewire which allows to use gdb to access data which can be referenced from symbols found by gdb in vmlinux: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 The latest version of this gdb proxy (fireproxy-0.34) can communicate (not yet stable) with kgdb over an memory-based communication module (kgdbom). @@ -173,7 +178,7 @@ Step-by-step instructions for using firescope with early OHCI initialization: Notes ----- -Documentation and specifications: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs +Documentation and specifications: http://halobates.de/firewire/ FireWire is a trademark of Apple Inc. - for more information please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire