head.S

Max Filippov jcmvbkbc at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 13:47:35 EDT 2014


Hi,

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabh4768jain at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to trace Linux kernel booting process for ARM architecture.
> Right now i am doing it manually . I am getting problem in reading assembly
> codes (like in head.s and other files) . Can any body tell me the correct
> way of tracing the linux kernel booting process ? Is there any guide which
> perfectly document Linux kernel files function by function ?

Not *the* (supposedly only) correct way, just one possible way is to use
gdb connected to qemu to step through your kernel code. Google suggests
the following, which looks pretty decent:
http://files.meetup.com/1590495/debugging-with-qemu.pdf

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Thanks.
-- Max



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