Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?

Remco Post
2002-09-04T13:57:50Z

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On woensdag, september 4, 2002, at 02:54 , Morten Helgesen wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:31, Morten Helgesen wrote:
>>> True - the 'normal' size on a PC is apparently something like 114
>>> bytes ...
>>> I guess we could use it for something useful ... but maybe not for
>>> OOPSen/panics.
>>>
>>> I didn`t realize we only had 114 bytes to work with.
>>
>> We don't. They are all used by the BIOS
>
> That makes it even less useful. Oh well.
>

For PC style hardware it does. For other platforms, it's stil nice to be
able to see the oops info on an unattended crash (all crashes? ;) Dump
to nvram, dump to file after boot.... Other option is to crash-dump to
swap... Question is, do you really want to do that?

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