Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

Pavel Machek
2000-12-16T22:26:26Z

Hi!

> > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot
> > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using
> > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port?
> >
> > Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting
> > the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I never gt my
> > COM2 to work (can't figure out what's wrong. doesn't work under windows
> > either). So that's out. I have a Keyspan USB PDA adapter that I use for
> > my Palm Vx which shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.
> >
> > I guess if usb serial can't be used I'll try duplicating the oops w/o
> > being dialed out.
>
> I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People
> have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm
> not sure if the oops main console requires something different (like
> registering itself actually as a console?)

No, you can't put kernel console on usb. Kernel console has to work
irq-less.
Pavel
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