Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:02:26 -0600 | From | Ray Friess <> | Subject | Re: Speaker twiddling [was: Re: Panicking in morse code] |
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will someone turn off the damn server or something... I've gotten this same message 40 times already....
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > > I don't understand the direction this discussion is taking. > > > > > > Either you are trying to output the panic information with minimal > > > hardware, and in a form a human might be able to decode, in which case > > > the Morse option seems to me to be the best, or you are trying to > > > panic in a machine readable format - in which case just dump the data > > > out /dev/ttyS0 and be done with it! > > > > > > To my way of thinking, the idea of the Morse option is that if an oops > > > > > > happens when you are not expecting it, and you haven't set up any > > > equipment to help you, you still have a shot at getting the data. > > > > > > To my way of thinking, this is still 'minimal' -- it's just a different > > minimum. > > > > It's the 'minimum' way to get the panic message out digitally, in such > > a way that I might be able to recover it using a tape recorder or a > > telephone. Actually, morse is probably that, but morse loses data and > > doesn't have any redundancy. > > You don't need redundancy. You should just repeat message over and over > and over and over and.... > > If you don't want morse to loose data, invent new codes for different > parenthesis etc. > Pavel > -- > Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, > details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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