From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
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"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:16:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125141605.43963105.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3F4A69.7090702@teksavvy.com>
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:10:49 -0500 Mark Lord wrote:
> On 11-01-25 12:05 PM, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> >
> > My current x86 laptop includes the very common ATA PIIX controller.
>
>
> ata_piix is just about ideal for this sort of thing.
>
> Except, don't use the BIOS to write the logs,
> but rather code/use a very simple set of polling-PIO
> functions to talk directly through the PIIX to the drive.
>
> Really really simple code to do that, and it would likely
> work with anything ata-piix, and most other non-AHCI chipsets too.
>
> Not perfect, but probably good enough for a lot of scenarios.
> The old hd.c driver shows how to read/write a sector at a time,
> and that kind of code is easily converted to simply poll for completion.
I don't know how/where to find it, but Rusty Russell had a version of this
many, many years ago.
---
~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 13:47 [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 13:51 ` [PATCH -next 1/2][RFC] x86: Saveoops: Switch to real-mode and call BIOS Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 13:53 ` [PATCH -next 2/2][RFC] x86: Saveoops: Reserve low memory and register code Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 9:04 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 14:09 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ingo Molnar
2011-01-25 15:08 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-25 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 11:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-03 14:36 ` Pavel Machek
2011-02-03 15:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-03 17:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-03 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 15:36 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 16:02 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-25 17:05 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:20 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-25 22:10 ` Mark Lord
2011-01-25 22:16 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-01-25 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 0:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-31 2:59 ` Rusty Russell
2011-01-31 10:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-25 17:32 ` Tony Luck
2011-01-25 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 14:49 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-28 7:59 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-01-25 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <AANLkTinU0KYiCd4p=z+=ojbkeEoT2G+CAYvdRU02KJEn-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 12:49 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 12:49 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 12:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 12:58 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110126125813.GA26952-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 13:34 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 13:34 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110126140030.GB30064-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4D40F5FD.6090507-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-27 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110127114113.GB20279-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 15:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-27 15:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1aaimxs9h.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 16:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 16:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 23:07 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53019438EABF-osO9UTpF0URqS6EAlXoojrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 23:16 ` Dave Jones
2011-01-26 23:16 ` Dave Jones
[not found] ` <20110126231620.GA14807-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 23:21 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:21 ` Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <20110126233033.GB14807@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53019438EBB6@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
[not found] ` <4D40F7F1.3020509@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20110127120039.GD20279@elte.hu>
2011-01-27 18:35 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <4D4197CB.9070201@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20110127162429.GB26437@elte.hu>
2011-01-27 18:56 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 1:09 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 1:09 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
[not found] ` <20110127021338.GA20334@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <20110127021338.GA20334-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4D40F81E.1030009-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 5:26 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 5:26 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 7:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-27 7:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-02 11:13 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ahmed S. Darwish
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