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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:59:07 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering
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To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/doc] x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp
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Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 17:54 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Daniel Walker wrote:
>>
>>> Fix up some typos, and make the requirements section slightly cleaner.
>>>
>>> Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker dwalker@fifo99.com
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt b/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
>>> index 607b1a0..5b51aef 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
>>> @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ and two USB cables, connected like this:
>>>  
>>>  1. There are three specific hardware requirements:
>>>  
>>> - a.) Host/target system needs to have USB debug port capability.
>>> + a.) You will need two USB ports. One on the client/console system and one one the target system.
>> s/one one/one on/
>>
>> You might also try harder to observe the 80-column rule.
>>
>>> + 
>>> + b.) The client/console and target USB ports must have the debug port capability.
>>>  
>>>   You can check this capability by looking at a 'Debug port' bit in
>>>   the lspci -vvv output:
>>> @@ -35,15 +37,13 @@ and two USB cables, connected like this:
>>>  ( If your system does not list a debug port capability then you probably
>>>    wont be able to use the USB debug key. )
>>>  
>>> - b.) You also need a Netchip USB debug cable/key:
>>> + c.) You also need a Netchip USB debug cable/key:
>>>  
>>>          http://www.plxtech.com/products/NET2000/NET20DC/default.asp
>>>  
>>>       This is a small blue plastic connector with two USB connections,
>>>       it draws power from its USB connections.
>> No.  It draws power from one of its USB connections (the one on the 
>> right side when you're looking at the face with the PLX logo).
>>
>> Alan Stern
> 
> --
> 
> Fix up some typos, and make the requirements section slightly cleaner.
> Updated the power draw comment per Alan Stern.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt b/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
> index 607b1a0..ac913a6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
> @@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ and two USB cables, connected like this:
>  
>  1. There are three specific hardware requirements:
>  
> - a.) Host/target system needs to have USB debug port capability.
> + a.) You will need two USB ports. One on the client/console system and one on 
> +     the target system.
> + 
> + b.) The client/console and target USB ports must have the debug port
> +     capability.

Is that correct on the (ugh, I think that the naming/terminology is
still mucked up, but you didn't do that) host/target system?

On the client/console (which I would call the host and I would call the
"Host/target" here just the Target system), a USB debug port is needed,
but on the Host/target, it should just look like a USB device.
At least that was the intent AFAIK/IIRC.  No?


-- 
~Randy
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