Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:44:25 +0100 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access |
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:54:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ditto on x86 - several of us raised the ideal of ACPI actually defining > a "log area" in the E820 map types or some other ACPI resource that > would be a chunk of RAM used for logs that wasn't going to get bios > eaten on a soft reboot but could be reclaimed by the OS but we didn't > get it.
What about UDP (or just eth) broadcasting the oops and catching it on another system? That would be useful if one has a lot of systems (I have about 40) and makes it possible to immediately alert someone without the need for ping games.
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