not able to understand 'icedcc_putc'

Chetan Nanda chetannanda at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 03:41:29 EST 2010


2010/2/2 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:18:55PM +0530, Chetan Nanda wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am newbie to ARM core. This might be a very silly question, but I am
> not
> > able to understand how 'icedcc_putc' function prints a character on
> console
> > (UART).
> It doesn't, so no wonder you don't see how it does.
>
> icedcc_putc uses the debug communications channel.  You can read it via
> jtag.
>
> If you want to understand the output on the serial console, you have to
> look into <mach/uncompress.h>.
>
> Yhea, on closely looking at code I was able to figure out the code.

~cnanda

> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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