Re: kdb without a keyboard controller

Hampton Maxwell (on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:28:45 -0800) wrote:
>I'm attempting to get kdb running on a PC Engines WRAP platform (x86 board 
>for embedded work), which doesn't have a keyboard controller.  We are 
>running a 2.4.25 kernel because one of our drivers hasn't been ported to 2.6 
>yet.  When I try and drop into kdb, it displays:
>Entering kdb (current=0xc02a0000, pid 0) due to Keyboard Entry
>and then hangs
>
>I can only assume that this is due to the lack of the keyboard controller 
>since the same kernel works fine on a Soekris 4801, which is essentially the 
>same board and processor but has a built-in keyboard controller.

KDB relies on the kernel to get information about the I/O devices, your
kernel thinks that it has an PC keyboard controller.  Turn off
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE.  Note: you have to select CONFIG_EMBEDDED first, if
EMBEDDED is not set then you always get a VT and its associated PC
keyboard.

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