Re: lan based kgdb

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sun, 2002-11-17 14:50:32 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
wrote in message <1037544804.4334.21.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:56, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > ...which reminds me to DEC's MOP (Maintainence and Operator's Protocol),
> > which is ethernet (but not IP) based remote console and a mixture of
> > bootp/tftp. Sure, we won't (yet) go as far as sending the next kernel to
> > boot via our new console protocol to kexec(), but wait for the very
> > first S-Records to arrive:-p
> 
> We have working DECnet and MOP server protocol support. That doesn't
> mean its a good idea

Really? Do we? Well, sure for the server part (-> booting. Half a dozend
implementations from which only one ot possibly two are really useable),
but the client side (remote console) was never implemented IIRC. And for
sure there's no MOP console server on linux:-)

MfG, JBG

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