Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread Grant Erickson
On 6/11/09 11:52 AM, Robin Getz wrote: On Thu 11 Jun 2009 13:53, David VomLehn pondered: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: I would be interested in Paul and Russell - how have you solved this issue? (Or do your kernel's never crash? :) Our kernel does crash, so we

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages

2009-01-06 Thread Grant Erickson
On 1/6/09 4:04 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:34 -0800, Grant Erickson wrote: This merges support for the previously DENX-only kernel feature of specifying an alternative, external buffer for kernel printk messages and their associated metadata. In addition

[PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages

2008-11-25 Thread Grant Erickson
This merges support for the previously DENX-only kernel feature of specifying an alternative, external buffer for kernel printk messages and their associated metadata. In addition, this ports architecture support for this feature from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages

2008-11-25 Thread Grant Erickson
On 11/25/08 10:55 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:53:12 -0600 Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nitpick, really.. shouldn't the logbuffer location(s) be some device tree property(ies), perhaps something in the /chosen node that U-Boot etc. can then fill out? I don't think