Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?

From: Morten Helgesen (morten.helgesen@nextframe.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 07:02:41 EST

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Hey, Roy

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:50:21PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi
>
> I just read in the OS X.2 technote

So did I :)

> (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?

Doesn`t look like too much work. As far as I can see, from a quick
glance, we have everything we need at hand - just have to write a snippet
of code in traps.c. I`ll give it a whirl now.

>
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== Morten

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