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SubjectRe: Kernel Debugging Hardware
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Steven S. Dick wrote:
> I believe it would be possible for <$50 to make a small device that could
> sit on a serial port and look for kernel OOPS messages and record them
> so that they can be examined after a reboot.

What would be better is to make a real crashdumper for the kernel.
Something akin to what Sun or FreeBSD has.

Have a peep at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook263.html#588
to see how FreeBSD does it.

-Dan


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