From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from web15802.mail.cnb.yahoo.com (web15802.mail.cnb.yahoo.com [202.165.102.82]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D4367B6E for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:34:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <20050706093436.80135.qmail@web15802.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:34:36 +0800 (CST) From: Sam Song To: Tom Rini In-Reply-To: <20050706051139.GB8358@smtp.west.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc2 netconsole problem List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Tom Rini wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Nope, that's how netconsole works, it's not > > > interactive (like console is > > > after init is spawned). > > > > Not interactive? I meant to use netconsole to > > repalce the mointor serial console. Meanwhile, I > > implemented netconsole on the target in u-boot > > and it did get a interactive console. Maybe I can > > try telnet after netconsole to get a net console > > in Linux? Sound a little bit complicated than > > what I thought:-) > > So netconsole is a write-only kernel console. > Kernel messages will go out, but your init process, > etc will not. For syslog type things, you > may want to look into a syslogd that does network. > I don't know how netconsole support in u-boot > works, but it sounds like it's a network > aware application that you can telnet into, rather > than Linux's netconsole. OK. I get it. The netconsole in kernel is different from the one implemented in u-boot. The u-boot netconsole is a interactive console whereas kernel netconsole is just a simulated one after booting up. No wawnder I need to wait 6-8 seconds to get the network output after loading kernel. Thanks so much for your clarification, Sam ___________________________________________________________ 雅虎免费G邮箱－中国第一绝无垃圾邮件骚扰超大邮箱 http://cn.mail.yahoo.com/?id=77071