Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 1997 01:55:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Steven S. Dick) | Subject | Kernel Debugging Hardware |
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I believe it would be possible for <$50 to make a small device that could sit on a serial port and look for kernel OOPS messages and record them so that they can be examined after a reboot.
One possible implementation would use a serial eeprom and a pic chip as a ring buffer and controller. It could be set up to just remember the last several K of messages, or stop recording before overwriting the first OOPS it sees, or something like that.
Would anyone be interested in a device like this? If so, I will begin desigining it and/or researching what alternatives would be cheapest... If I get no responses, I'll just leave it on my drawing board as something that I might some day find a use for...
Steve ssd@nevets.oau.org
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