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SubjectRe: Suggestion: how to deal with unloggable kernel death.
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> The existence of the serial console patches has given me an idea in this 
> direction: This driver would be fine for logging to a terminal (but how
> many people have them? And that won't help if we have a message longer
> than the terminal's screen. Also, if it uses serial ports, if it operates
> using interrupts we are again stuffed if the interrupt handler has been
> nuked. I think it uses polled access though... )

Polled. Its ok

> Result: just hook an el-cheapo dot-matrix printer to your box, load it
> with a few 1000 sheets of fanfold, and wait for that next devious crash to
> roll in. Obviously won't catch those crashes which won't generate any
> messages at all, but otherwise, fairly foolproof.

When I were a lad ;) you plugged printers into serial ports too. I've got
an Epson PX-4 laptop plugged into my development serial port running a
trivial CP/M terminal application and logging. Saves wasting trees,
gets the logs and I got two PX-4's for free from a junk box of them ;)

Alan



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