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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kernel dump solutions
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:54:59 -0400
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On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:53 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm curious what people are using for a kernel dump solution on embedded
> 
> Create a region of memory that pesist across resets.
> Put kernel panic info, exceptiions and scheduling events into said memory.
> Profit!

I've done that many times.  It works well enough, but it's not a dump.
I've actually used some dumps to debug some rather difficult kernel
problems in the past, but there are increasingly fewer options these
days.

> If only more manufactures would support this in the bios...
> Intel and BIOS writter folks are you listening?

BIOS... yeah... I don't have a BIOS.  That's the best way to deal with
that.

josh