Re: status update for current development on ASUS M2N

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 08:31, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
>  || On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:48:08 +1000
>  || "Nigel Cunningham" <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> wrote: 
> 
>  >> Can you tell me how to do this, please?
> 
>  nc> The simplest way is to do a digital photograph, I'm afraid. The
>  nc> 'nice' way is to hook up a serial console and capture the output.
> 
> That is rather inconvenient.
> 
> I'm curious. Any reason that nobody implemented something to do this?
> 
> I would assume that a kdb buffer that is reserved at startup,
> initalized with 0s and into which only kdb can write during debugging.
> 
> When kdb is left and the buffer is different from 0, the contents are
> dumped to dmesg/syslog.

Something like printk :> It wouldn't work with suspending because we're
overwriting such buffers when copying the original kernel back (with the
contents from suspend-time). Furthermore, it won't help if you get such
a crash because you're never going to start syslogd and get the data
written.

Sorry.

Nigel