Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:25:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:25:27 -0400 Received: from employees.nextframe.net ([212.169.100.200]:61423 "EHLO sexything.nextframe.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:25:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:31:15 +0200 From: Morten Helgesen To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram? Message-ID: <20020904143115.A117@sexything> Reply-To: morten.helgesen@nextframe.net References: <200209041350.21358.roy@karlsbakk.net> <1031142093.2796.116.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031142093.2796.116.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0 X-Keyboard: PFU Happy Hacking Keyboard X-Operating-System: Slackware Linux (of course) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 36 On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:21:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 12:50, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > hi > > > > I just read in the OS X.2 technote > > (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html#TN001016) that > > they're writing the panic dump to nvram. > > > > Is it hard to implement this on Linux? > > Its been done years ago. However on a PC you basically have no free > nvram so its not terribly useful there. 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. == Morten -- "Livet er ikke for nybegynnere" - sitat fra en klok person. mvh Morten Helgesen UNIX System Administrator & C Developer Nextframe AS admin@nextframe.net / 93445641 http://www.nextframe.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/