Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 1999 11:58:03 +0200 | From | Andreas Ehliar <> | Subject | Re: New partition type? |
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On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 11:38:37AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > Safely writing an Oops is all very well but any new mechanism needs to > be reliable as well. The more I look at this problem, the more I think > that the only reliable option on a single machine is one that stores > the Oops text in memory that does not get overwritten on reboot.
The only problem is to find such memory. Framebuffer memory comes to mind.
This would probably be pretty easy to implement. We could specify the physical address of the buffer via a sysctl.
Btw, there is already code in the amiga port to save the syslog buffer to chipmem.
regards Andreas Ehliar
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