[ECOS] Debug output

[Gary Thomas]

On 13-Jun-2001 Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>> 
>> I noticed that my serial I/O is sending some debug info too if I run my
>> ROM based program.  Running the RAM based programming using RedBoot
>> doesn't send this information to the serial port, but does send it back
>> to GDB.
>> 
>> Network stack using 65536 bytes for misc space
>>                     65536 bytes for mbufs
>>                     131072 bytes for mbuf clusters
>> serial example is working correctly!
>> 
>> I'm using TCP/IP to connect so I can use the serial port separately from
>> the GDB connection.
>> 
>> How do I get rid of this?  I assume it's an option in the eCos config,
>> but I can't seem to find it.
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced about it's use now myself. When the TCP/IP stack
> was new it was informative, but now we could make it optional.
> 
> For you, work around it by editting net/tcpip/current/src/ecos/support.c,
> in the function cyg_kmem_init().
> 
> Gary, any reason not to make a config option that controls debug output. It
> could be a component that included other things like DHCP_CHATTER.

That would be fine.  These messages are indeed vestiges of early testing of
the stack.