Re: [patch 18/38] Improved oops output.

Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-27T21:10:55Z

Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 20:14 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding
>>> the faulting PSW.
>> Is that really needed? I use a simple wrapper around as/objdump for this
>> and it works great.
>>
>> (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/shell/decodecode)
>
> It is not absolutly needed but it is damn convenient. Usually I can
> immediatly see the reason for the oops. And the size is only 8KB which
> is next to nothing.
>

Yeah, well your instruction set is really simple anyway. :)

I wonder how big the x86 disassembler is...