kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debugger

The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.

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Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
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Jason Wessel 2010-05-20 21:04:30 -05:00
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@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
console.
ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
ekgdboc=kbd
This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
eata= [HW,SCSI]
edd= [EDD]