From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Bug report data collection tool Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:58:53 -0600 Message-ID: <20050721125853.GC27330@colo.lackof.org> References: <42DF53E8.5010904@excelcia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: Kurt Fitzner Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <42DF53E8.5010904@excelcia.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:51:04AM -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > I was thinking that perhaps it would be useful to have a tool to help > collate information after a hang/crash. Something you would run on the > next boot. > > I wasn't able to tell from a cursory glance at pdc_stable.c, but if the > driver supports it then perhaps the tool could read HPMC/TOC data post > crash from nvram (rather than having to write out or use a serial > console to capture 'ser pim' data). We thought of that before but there are a few issues: 1) stable storage access is only via PDC calls. 2) format of PIM data is platform dependent - ie every model machine could have a different format. In practice, ISTR the format usually is the same for a given processor model and not each model of machine. > It could then cross reference the > crash address with the System.map, gather pre-crash data from the logs > and a machine profile from /proc. > > If something like this would be useful, I could do with having a project > to help me learn the ropes. Lack of documentation will make this a fairly hard project. :^( sorry, grant _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux