Re: capturing oopses

[Christopher Friesen]

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've worked on a few blades that had this.  Serial console wasn't going 
to be available in the field, so being able to just dump debug 
information to persistent memory was really nice.

Chris
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