OLS 2008 videos

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Greetings, Thomas and I have just released the 30 videos that we shot at OLS this year: http://free-electrons.com/news/news-2008-08-08 Most videos are from kernel and embedded topics, which most of you should be interested in ;-) . Don't hesitate to let other people know... Cheers, Michael and

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:20 -0700, David VomLehn wrote: Allow diversion of characters generated through printk so that they can be logged separately. The printk_time variables is made externally visible so that functions processing the diverted characters can parse off the time added if

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In your case you might not be able to do that, but it

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-08 Thread Behan Webster
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Thanks for this useful tool! I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file system. It worked fine, except for one minor nit. As an NFS root file system is mounted read-only by default, I

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In

Re: linux under emulator

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 12:30:45 Grant Likely wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mihaela Grigore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I intend to run a 2.6 linux kernel under a powerpc emulator, what is needed to make a minimal bootable system? I mean, apart from the kernel itself and

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you said usually people submit new interfaces, not it is usually not accepted without at least one user. Well, usually people do submit the users, and if they don't it's usually not accepted.. I invite you to give some of the plenty

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: I invite you to give some of the plenty of examples in the tree, you might surprise me.. look at all the new syscalls added without any userspace code in place (still) to use it.

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the original thread behind the commit. How

RE: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printkoutput for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Haller, John H (John)
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the original thread behind the