Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:57:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:57:50 -0400 Received: from mta.sara.nl ([145.100.16.144]:62163 "EHLO mta.sara.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:57:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:02:04 +0200 Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: morten.helgesen@nextframe.net From: Remco Post In-Reply-To: <20020904145446.B117@sexything> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 0.5.3 (v20) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 53 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - --- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP keys at http://home.sara.nl/~remco/keys.asc "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQE9dhJkBIoCv9yTlOwRAgG3AJ0SFZCTxz01okoJjlD4QHqNEBJjuACgp6sI YJloQg8tfaE+677XsT7sq7M= =p/b2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/