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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, vb <vb@vsbe.com>,
	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some embedded topics
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:52:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806011852.09909.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530190423.67ac3139@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

On Friday 30 May 2008 19:04:23 Josh Boyer wrote:
> > I'm not sure, however, that the buffers are pushed to user-space,
> > through the daemon, and back to the file system in an expedient manner.
> > I agree it might be worth a look for this use case.  We use it at
> > Sony quite a bit and it's valuable.
>
> With a little bit of work, you could have it trace into a circular
> buffer in DRAM.  Then you can preserve that via mem= reservations,
> etc.

At this point, I feel the need to remind people of the time Linus Torvalds got 
a mac mini, tried to get software suspend working on it, and wound up using 
the RTC as a debug register to tell him where it hung/rebooted:

Thread starts here:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2006-June/008465.html

A few interesting posts in the thread:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2006-June/008470.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2006-June/008475.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2006-June/008491.html

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-01 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <483C83DE.3040604@cisco.com>
     [not found] ` <483C83DE.3040604-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-29  2:09   ` Some embedded topics Paul Gortmaker
     [not found] ` <8bd0f97a0805271527i622a31b8t68ba24c80a2e034a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <20080527223142.GU26837@email.mot.com>
     [not found]     ` <20080527223142.GU26837-qbu1+ugcRq/by3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-29  3:01       ` Rob Landley
     [not found]         ` <200805282201.48746.rob-VoJi6FS/r0vR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-29  4:21           ` Mike Frysinger
     [not found]             ` <8bd0f97a0805282121j10a99bb7ve92efc6a8dc8bbb1-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-29  5:38               ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-05-29 17:31             ` Rob Landley
2008-05-29 18:20               ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-29  5:34           ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-05-29  9:31         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-05-30 22:59           ` Tim Bird
2008-05-30 23:20             ` Jordan Crouse
2008-05-31  0:07             ` Josh Boyer
2008-05-31 13:32             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
     [not found]     ` <8bd0f97a0805271535w267be51fq669def9aa424e4e7@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <840404080805280740q4486f377x49c106e20d9f5dc2@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <840404080805280744t351da73fk885fa7b29c05659c@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <483D7355.5050803@coritel.it>
     [not found]             ` <483D7355.5050803-5RgZt0ZUL+KonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-28 15:44               ` Fwd: " Joe MacDonald
2008-05-30 22:21             ` Tim Bird
2008-06-02  0:09               ` Rob Landley
2008-06-03  8:32               ` Marco Stornelli
     [not found] ` <20080527173118.12ec691b@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>
     [not found]   ` <f608b67d0805271537m1b07e08y5dd84f7bbd8918cf@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20080527180200.56ffc588@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>
2008-05-30 22:36       ` Tim Bird
2008-05-31  0:04         ` Josh Boyer
2008-06-01 23:52           ` Rob Landley [this message]

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