[Gllug] Serial debugging

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, June 4, 2011 2:42 pm, Tethys wrote:
>
> Adrian McMenamin writes:
>
>>USB -> serial (does this work, searching suggests I need to configure
>>the USB port in a special way but it's not clear)
>
> For a serial console, it just worked for me out of the box, as
> if I had a real serial cable plugged in. No need to configure
> anything.  Whether that's also true for debugging over serial
> or not, I couldn't say. But they're cheap enough that it's
> probably worth just getting one and seeing if it works.
>
I discovered there is also a thing called netconsole which pushes printk
messages as UDP packets over the network so will probably try that first
and go from there.

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