Re: Re: How to store kernel panic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:03:48PM +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Can't it be done with what's in the tree already? Just create an MTD > > device using phram or something else, then point mtdoops at it > > Yes of course, if possible we shouldn't reinvent the wheel bu

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-28 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 28 December 2009 04:27:04 Andy Green wrote: > I wasn't suggesting you don't have firsthand experience all over the > place, eg, busybox, I know it. What I do suggest in the principles I > have been bothering your Christmas with here can really pay off and are > in the opposite direction

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-28 Thread Andy Green
On 12/28/09 19:57, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi Peter - Thanks for an interesting discussion and all your free buildroot advertising ;) (buildroot maintainer) Hey you are welcome... in the situations where you can't play the distro game then buildroot is the lifesaver. Sam

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Andy" == Andy Green writes: Hi, Andy> This is what I have been calling "buildroot thinking" again. Thanks for an interesting discussion and all your free buildroot advertising ;) (buildroot maintainer) Andy> This thread was meant to be about merits of Qi, it's kinda gone Andy> off i

Re: Re: How to store kernel panic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread Marco Stornelli
David Woodhouse wrote: > Can't it be done with what's in the tree already? Just create an MTD > device using phram or something else, then point mtdoops at it Yes of course, if possible we shouldn't reinvent the wheel but I wondered if there was something more specific. To add mtdoops (more or le

Re: CELF Project Proposal - Feasibility analisys of Android introduction in a completely tested industrial device

2009-12-28 Thread Raffaele Recalcati
Raffaele Recalcati wrote: > 2009/12/18 Raffaele Recalcati : >> Summary: Feasibility analisys of Android introduction in a completely >> tested industrial device. >> >> Description: By now Android has been ported to 600Mhz Cortex A8 cpu or >> similar. >> The declared Android requirements are instea

Re: How to store kernel pranic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:43 +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote: > It would be nice to have a "ramoops" to save in a circular buffer in a > persistent ram this kind of information. Any comments? Is there already > anything similar out-of-tree? Can't it be done with what's in the tree already? Just creat

How to store kernel pranic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread Marco Stornelli
Hi, I know the open project proposal 2010 is closed, but it's just to start a discussion. It would be nice to save oops/panic automatically in a structure/file in ram. At the moment there are two way to save information: mtdoops (save the information in flash), with kdump/kexec (we can extract the

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-28 Thread Andy Green
On 12/28/09 00:21, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi - I started programming on a commodore 64. By modern standards, that system is so far down into "embedded" territory it's barely a computer. And yet people did development on it. My dear Rob I got started on a PET, I can under

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-28 Thread Andy Green
On 12/27/09 23:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi Rob - I've also spent the last few years developing a project that produces native built environments for various QEMU targets and documents how to bootstrap various distros under them: http://impactlinux.com/fwl So I do have