[ANNOUNCE] The USB ehci/uhci for KDB

[Jay Lan]

Matt Benjamin wrote:

Hi Matt,

> I just wanted to let folks know that I
> 
> 1. got this working on x86 (x86_64, Dell Vostro 200)

Great!

>   1.a after moving some static function definitions around to deal with
> issues mentioned by Jay

What kind of problem was that? I did not have problem building on
x86_64? My problem was on ia64.

>   1.b and after hacking around an apparent bug in get_usb_char
> (kdba_io_64.c)

I assume it is in arch/x86/kdba_io_64.c? Can you share your hacking
with us and what problem did it fix? Maybe you hit something
Konstantin did not see.

Thanks,
 - jay


> 
> The proximate issue is that in (at least) the case where we (I think) we
> got no keypress, i has the value KDB_USB_NUM_KEYBOARDS, which provokes a
> trap when we call urb_complete.
> 
> Thanks for getting this in, KDB developers.  I absolutely needed a KDB
> on these boxes, and this arrived just in time.
> 
> Matt
> 
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