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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig.debug')
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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug index e0d236d7ff7..755d9fbe323 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug @@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ choice 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 |