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ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting

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This is a very simple method for code running in an emulator, or under
the supervision of a debugger, to use I/O facilities on the controlling
host.

Tested with OpenOCD, and ARM's Fast Models.

Details on semihosting can be found in chapter 8 of
DUI0203I_rvct_developer_guide.pdf from ARM Ltd.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-22 21:58:03 +01:00
committed by Russell King
parent 101d9b0ded
commit 9b5a146a43
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Note that the system will appear to hang during boot if there
is nothing connected to read from the DCC.
config DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING
bool "Kernel low-level debug output via semihosting I"
help
Semihosting enables code running on an ARM target to use
the I/O facilities on a host debugger/emulator through a
simple SVC calls. The host debugger or emulator must have
semihosting enabled for the special svc call to be trapped
otherwise the kernel will crash.
This is known to work with OpenOCD, as wellas
ARM's Fast Models, or any other controlling environment
that implements semihosting.
For more details about semihosting, please see
chapter 8 of DUI0203I_rvct_developer_guide.pdf from ARM Ltd.
config AT91_DEBUG_LL_DBGU0
bool "Kernel low-level debugging on rm9200, 9260/9g20, 9261/9g10 and 9rl"
depends on HAVE_AT91_DBGU0