Messages in this thread | | | Date | 2 Jul 1999 22:42:04 +0200 | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch (Jes Sorensen) writes:
>Before you can do this you need a hardware address for the receiver, >this can of course be done by putting it statically into this special >driver. Alternatively you need a fair amount of a network stack to run >before you can first get the hw address via ARP, and then send out a >message with the oops info. Now this requires a sorta functional >Ethernet driver to get anywhere and often your interrupts are dead.
Broadcast it (MAC-addr all ones) to a "special" port. To send it out, you need a bare bones, no frills, interruptless, stripped down driver (reset ethernet board, put packet in buffer, send it, die).
Actually I think, that sending the oops out over the network (as a compile option, of course) is a nice idea. Maybe I will toy with this sometime this weekend (don't hold your breath, though :-)
Kind regards Henning
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