Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS - on 2007-06-28 this was added to Linus's tree: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/18/234 CONFIG_MTD_OOPS tristate

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
On Fri 26 Jun 2009 13:42, David VomLehn pondered: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-14 Thread Robin Getz
On Sat 13 Jun 2009 14:59, Wolfgang Denk pondered: Dear Russell King, In message 20090613102642.gb7...@flint.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: The other way I've seen people read out crash messages is using a debugger to dump the kernel's log buffer directly. That seems to work as well as

Re: AT91SAM9G20 design and boot times

2009-06-11 Thread Robin Getz
On Thu 11 Jun 2009 08:48, Nicolas Ferre pondered: Aras Vaichas : * what is your boot time? What is the time from power-on to kernel running, how long does the kernel take to run until init starts, and how long does init take? [snip] That said, here are numbers from our not optimized demo

Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-10 Thread Robin Getz
On 17 Oct 2007, after much discussion and debate, Mike added add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer (from kernel space). http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0b15d04af3dd996035d8fa81fc849d049171f9c3 The intention was for them to be used by

Re: [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins

2008-12-31 Thread Robin Getz
On Tue 30 Dec 2008 23:58, Jaya Kumar pondered: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Robin Getz rg...@blackfin.uclinux.org wrote: Yeah, I hadn't thought about spanning more than one gpio_chip. That's a good point. The currently posted code already supports spanning more than one gpio_chip

Re: [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins

2008-12-30 Thread Robin Getz
On Mon 29 Dec 2008 14:56, David Brownell pondered: On Sunday 28 December 2008, Robin Getz wrote: On Sat 27 Dec 2008 09:55, Jaya Kumar pondered: I think that I would prefer 'group' or 'collection' to use some of the words that David described things as 'ganged' or 'bus' or 'bank

Re: [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins

2008-12-28 Thread Robin Getz
On Sat 27 Dec 2008 09:55, Jaya Kumar pondered: Oh, gosh darn it, how time has flown. My email above was to make sure I have understood the feedback. I assume I should just get started on implementing. Just to double check, the plan is: - add bitmask support. - add get_batch support - improve

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-09 Thread Robin Getz
On Thu 9 Oct 2008 11:21, Adrian Bunk pondered: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:19:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: I've been thinking about a tool that might be useful to track kernel size changes. I'm posting this Request For Comments to get feedback, and determine if this is something that would

Re: local_save_flags(flags)

2008-09-28 Thread Robin Getz
On Wed 24 Sep 2008 13:06, Fundu pondered: what about Non maskable interrupts ? disabling interrupt won't have any effect on that right ? that really doesnt make sense by definition huh. non-maskable means they cant be masked. yeah thats the point. i should have elaborated