Re: [PATCH] Make gdb debugging a bit less painful

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 13:32 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:21:14PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > >Now that I think of it, is there any reason for doing all the cmain()
> > >cruft before grub_main() ?  Getting to grub_main() only requires a working
> > >stack, which we have, and grub_main() inmediately returns control back to
> > >architecture-specific code in grub_machine_init().
> > >
> > >So why not move from:
> > >
> > >  _start -> cmain -> grub_main
> > >
> > >to:
> > >
> > >  _start -> grub_main -> grub_machine_init -> cmain
> > >
> > >?
> > 
> > I think it would be great.  We should try to make the code for  
> > different architectures more uniform to simplify maintenance.
> 
> Here.  Unfortunately I can't test it as I have no ieee1275 at hand currently.
> 
> Anyone?

I have an OLPC XO machine borrowed now. I will test that this evening.

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)