From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:10:14 -0400 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:36345 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:10:00 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:09:50 -0600 To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com Subject: Re: [patch] netconsole-2.4.10-B1 Message-ID: <20010930220950.K930@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Randy.Dunlap" , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com In-Reply-To: <3BB77591.C1349C09@osdlab.org> <3BB77FD7.696CFC58@osdlab.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BB77FD7.696CFC58@osdlab.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sep 30, 2001 13:25 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > I'm interested in using netconsole early (during boot). > Any problems doing that, other than getting module parameters > to it? I can fix that part. I was thinking about this as well. It should be relatively easy to allow a line line "console=eth0,XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX,a.b.c.d" or similar. The only slight problem might be in configuring the interface early enough in the boot process. AFAIK (which isn't much in this area) the serial console has special "console" code which allows it to be used very early in the boot process. You would obviously need to have the network driver compiled into the kernel and not a module. Maybe Ingo can hack something where it is possible to initialize the network code very early in the boot process? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert