Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:23:32 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ville Herva wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:31:36PM -0800, you [Linus Torvalds] wrote: > > > Crash Dumping (LKCD) > > > > This is definitely a vendor-driven thing. I don't believe it has any > > relevance unless vendors actively support it. > > I don't think this is just a vendor thing. Currently, linux doesn't have any > way of saving the crash dump when the box crashes. So if it crashes, the > user needs to write the oops down by hand (error prone, the interesting part > has often scrolled off screen), or attach a serial console (then he needs to > reproduce it - not always possible, and actually majority of people (home > users) don't have second box and the cable. Nor the motivation.)
Except on m68k, where we've had a feature to store all kernel messages in an unused portion of memory (e.g. some Chip RAM on Amiga) and recover them after reboot since ages.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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