From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<greg@kroah.com>, Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>,
Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Kdump: Disabling PCI interrupts in capture kernel
Date: 03 Jun 2005 12:26:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ekbj9u06.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0506031111080.6451-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> > In previous conversations, Alan Stern had raised the issue of console also
> > not working if interrupts are disabled on all the devices. I am not sure
> > but this should be working at least for serial consoles and vga text consoles.
>
> > May be sufficient to capture the dump.
>
> This isn't an issue for x86. It affects other architectures, in which the
> system console is managed during the early stages of booting by the
> platform firmware. I suppose serial consoles would always work.
In the plain kexec case that should be doable. I don't think
I have heard of a kdump case where we can work with the platform
firmware.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-03 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-03 11:25 [RFC/PATCH] Kdump: Disabling PCI interrupts in capture kernel Vivek Goyal
2005-06-03 11:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-03 15:24 ` Alan Stern
2005-06-03 18:26 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2005-06-03 18:21 ` Greg KH
2005-06-03 18:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-06-04 13:18 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-04 13:43 ` [Fastboot] " Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-04 14:03 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-04 21:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-04 10:43 Vivek Goyal
2005-06-04 10:57 Vivek Goyal
2005-06-04 15:35 ` Alan Stern
2005-06-04 18:26 ` Grant Grundler
[not found] <4bExX-3uT-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-06-04 12:38 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-06-07 3:07 Vivek Goyal
2005-06-07 5:07 ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-07 9:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-06-07 16:21 ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-07 11:56 Vivek Goyal
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