Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:20:36 -0400 |
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> having a nice integrated kernel debugger like SGI's kdb would be great > to resolve problems like these. the patch to dump an oops to a floppy is > also good, but would it be possible to dump it to a file or a small > partition on an internal disk instead? Linus, including a feature like > that would make it a whole lot easier to get high quality oops reports to > developers. > > - Chuck Lever
How about dumping to the swap partition along with a special sequence of bytes used as a flag. This way when the machine is brought back up the kernel can then use that special sequence of bytes along with the debug data to generate a bug report.
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