earlyprintk,vga,kdb: Fix \b and \r for earlyprintk=vga with kdb
authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Fri, 21 May 2010 02:04:31 +0000 (21:04 -0500)
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Fri, 21 May 2010 02:04:31 +0000 (21:04 -0500)
Allow kdb to work properly with with earlyprintk=vga by interpreting
the backspace and carriage return output characters.  These
interpretation of these characters is used for simple line editing
provided in the kdb shell.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c

index b9c830c..fa99bae 100644 (file)
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ static void early_vga_write(struct console *con, const char *str, unsigned n)
                                writew(0x720, VGABASE + 2*(max_xpos*j + i));
                        current_ypos = max_ypos-1;
                }
+#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
+               if (c == '\b') {
+                       if (current_xpos > 0)
+                               current_xpos--;
+               } else if (c == '\r') {
+                       current_xpos = 0;
+               } else
+#endif
                if (c == '\n') {
                        current_xpos = 0;
                        current_ypos++;