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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic
On 01/25/2011 05:16 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:10:49 -0500 Mark Lord wrote:
>
>> On 11-01-25 12:05 PM, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
>>>
>>> My current x86 laptop includes the very common ATA PIIX controller.
>>
>>
>> ata_piix is just about ideal for this sort of thing.
>>
>> Except, don't use the BIOS to write the logs,
>> but rather code/use a very simple set of polling-PIO
>> functions to talk directly through the PIIX to the drive.
>>
>> Really really simple code to do that, and it would likely
>> work with anything ata-piix, and most other non-AHCI chipsets too.
>>
>> Not perfect, but probably good enough for a lot of scenarios.
>> The old hd.c driver shows how to read/write a sector at a time,
>> and that kind of code is easily converted to simply poll for completion.
>
> I don't know how/where to find it, but Rusty Russell had a version of this
> many, many years ago.

You beat me to the reply :)

http://lwn.net/Articles/9905/

but IIRC there were updates and improvements.



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