Re: capturing oopses

From: Ville Herva
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 14:35:28 EST


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:20:02AM -0800, you [mgross] wrote:
>
> You know some platforms that perserve the memory above some addresses across
> warm boots. For such platforms, one could reserve a buffer in that area can
> copy the sys log buffer to it on panic along with a bit pattern that could be
> searched for upon the next boot.

I think there was a patch to do this a couple of years ago.

The only references I can find now are:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Utility+module+to+capture+OOPS+output+over+reboot%22&hl=en&selm=fa.fbd0l7v.14hau3n%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=93077831203565&w=2


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