linux-kernel - Re: debugging a modern laptop ...

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Message-ID: <20110323041256.GD21838@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:12:56 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bernhard Kaindl <bk@...e.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: debugging a modern laptop ...

> most modern devices have at least one usb port, but as far
> as I could figure out via google, there is no support for
> console or similar over usb (serial or not) atm
> (please feel free to correct me here :)

There is also USB debugport, but you need a quite expensive cable
(~$100) for it. Usually it only works on one of the USB ports.

> 
> after some research, I also found a quite antique project
> exploiting the ieee1394 DMA feature, called firescope and
> after some issues finding the latest version of the tool and
> of course getting a firewire cable, there seems to be some
> kind of interaction between the monitoring system and the
> device in question, but it seems that a few problems exist
> and I didn't manage to get any relevant information that
> way yet (please let me know if that is still maintained)

It works, but you need to enable it of course. The printk
buffer hasn't changed for a long time.

The only problem often is that it doesn't support memory >4GB,
however it turns out that some LSI chips support >4GB DMA
and with those it works too.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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