[haiku-development] Re: FireWire debugging (was Re: Blog Posting Permission?)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:20:44 +0200 CEST
"Michael Crawford" <mdcrawford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > While you're at it, do you mind implementing
> > kernel-debug-over-Firewire, like FreeBSD and Mac OS X sport?
> I expect this would be of higher priority than FireWire storage, and
> might actually be easier.
>
> Do FreeBSD and Mac OSX use the same protocol for FireWire debugging?
> If not, which should I do first? I personally would prefer support
> for Mac OS X for the UI, as that's what I have, but if they are
> different and more kernel developers would use FreeBSD, then that's
> what I'll do.
AFAICT FireWire debugging is just a shortcut through the FireWire stack
to provide something very close to a serial debug output. I doubt there
is much of a protocol, but I also don't know if you need any extra
hardware to actually make use of the output (probably yes).
Bye,
Axel.
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