[PATCH] ppc64: update xmon helptext

xmon will do nothing but noise on a G5 if BOOTX_TEXT is not enabled.
mention the recognized kernel cmdline options for xmon.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug
index 46b1ce5..f16a503 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -41,10 +41,19 @@ config XMON
        help
          Include in-kernel hooks for the xmon kernel monitor/debugger.
          Unless you are intending to debug the kernel, say N here.
+         Make sure to enable also CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT on Macs. Otherwise
+         nothing will appear on the screen (xmon writes directly to the
+         framebuffer memory).
+         The cmdline option 'xmon' or 'xmon=early' will drop into xmon very
+         early during boot. 'xmon=on' will just enable the xmon debugger hooks.
+         'xmon=off' will disable the debugger hooks if CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT is set.
 
 config XMON_DEFAULT
        bool "Enable xmon by default"
        depends on XMON
+       help
+         xmon is normally disabled unless booted with 'xmon=on'.
+         Use 'xmon=off' to disable xmon init during runtime.
 
 config PPCDBG
        bool "Include PPCDBG realtime debugging"