Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access

Frank van Maarseveen
2005-01-09T10:44:29Z

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:54:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Ditto on x86 - several of us raised the ideal of ACPI actually defining
> a "log area" in the E820 map types or some other ACPI resource that
> would be a chunk of RAM used for logs that wasn't going to get bios
> eaten on a soft reboot but could be reclaimed by the OS but we didn't
> get it.

What about UDP (or just eth) broadcasting the oops and catching it
on another system? That would be useful if one has a lot of systems
(I have about 40) and makes it possible to immediately alert someone
without the need for ping games.

--
Frank