Re: [PATCH] Make gdb debugging a bit less painful

[Bean]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>  > > -   jmp EXT_C(cmain)
>  > > +   jmp EXT_C(grub_main)
>  >
>  > Or maybe that should be a "call" instead..
>
>  Only if there is any chance of return, and we can handle it.
>
>  "exit" in open firmware based systems would probably mean returning
>  control to open firmware.
>
>  By the way, it would be nice to have "exit" in both grub for PC and
>  grub-emu, and not only in the rescue mode.  "exit" on PC means returning
>  control to BIOS so it can try another boot device.  "exit" in grub-emu
>  means exit, of course.  I have to use "reboot" now (which should not
>  exit, but rather restart grub-emu, if it belongs to grub-emu at all) or
>  "rescue" followed by "exit".

Hi,

The would be nice, but we don't know if grub has overwritten the
memory occupied by the original boot environment, so exit might have
unexpected result.

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Bean