From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Remco Post <r.post@sara.nl>
Cc: morten.helgesen@nextframe.net,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904140856.GA1949@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E471FA7E-C00E-11D6-A20D-000393911DE2@sara.nl>; from r.post@sara.nl on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 16:02:04 +0200
On 2002.09.04 Remco Post wrote:
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>On woensdag, september 4, 2002, at 02:54 , Morten Helgesen wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:31, Morten Helgesen wrote:
>>>> True - the 'normal' size on a PC is apparently something like 114
>>>> bytes ...
>>>> I guess we could use it for something useful ... but maybe not for
>>>> OOPSen/panics.
>>>>
>>>> I didn`t realize we only had 114 bytes to work with.
>>>
>>> We don't. They are all used by the BIOS
>>
>> That makes it even less useful. Oh well.
>>
>
>For PC style hardware it does. For other platforms, it's stil nice to be
>able to see the oops info on an unattended crash (all crashes? ;) Dump
>to nvram, dump to file after boot.... Other option is to crash-dump to
>swap... Question is, do you really want to do that?
>
Instead of swap, let user specify a partition to raw dump there. If a user
wants crash dumps, he has to leave some small disk space free and give an
option like "dump=/dev/hda7".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 11:50 writing OOPS/panic info to nvram? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-09-04 12:02 ` Morten Helgesen
2002-09-04 12:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-04 12:31 ` Morten Helgesen
2002-09-04 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-04 12:54 ` Morten Helgesen
2002-09-04 14:02 ` Remco Post
2002-09-04 14:08 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-09-04 14:23 ` Remco Post
2002-09-06 10:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-10 14:55 ` Remco Post
2002-09-13 17:03 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-04 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-04 14:41 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-09-04 14:49 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-09-06 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-04 23:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-09-04 23:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 0:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-06 6:48 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-05 10:38 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
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2005-01-24 15:18 Christoph Stueckjuergen
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