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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug7
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
index 6a79fe43e22..d20ccf5f2ca 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ config BOOTX_TEXT
config PPC_EARLY_DEBUG
bool "Early debugging (dangerous)"
+ help
+ Say Y to enable some early debugging facilities that may be available
+ for your processor/board combination. Those facilities are hacks
+ intended to debug problems early during boot, this should not be
+ enabled in a production kernel.
+ Note that enabling this will also cause the kernel default log level
+ to be pushed to max automatically very early during boot
choice
prompt "Early debugging console"
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c
index d723070c9a3..eba148f2a31 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ void __init udbg_early_init(void)
#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM)
udbg_init_cpm();
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG
+ console_loglevel = 10;
+#endif
}
/* udbg library, used by xmon et al */