Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:57:38 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine |
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Hi!
> > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > > > The driver itself has to provide support for serial console. If the USB > > serial driver doesn't (I don't know) it won't work. Check the config > > options for USB serial, if it doesn't offer an option for console on USB > > serial port then you're out of luck. > > > > Unless the USB serial driver in some strange way hooks into the standard > > serial driver, but then someone more knowledgeable should answer that > > question. > > Nope, it doesn't specifically support the CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE with all > of the register_console code, etc., so this will not work, sorry. > > But it's something that I would gladly take a patch for :)
Forget it. It is almost impossible, unless you can do usb without interrupts. (You can't). Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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