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From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c  lockless access
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:44:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050109104425.GA9524@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105062162.24896.311.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:54:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Ditto on x86 - several of us raised the ideal of ACPI actually defining
> a "log area" in the E820 map types or some other ACPI resource that
> would be a chunk of RAM used for logs that wasn't going to get bios
> eaten on a soft reboot but could be reclaimed by the OS but we didn't
> get it.

What about UDP (or just eth) broadcasting the oops and catching it
on another system? That would be useful if one has a lot of systems
(I have about 40) and makes it possible to immediately alert someone
without the need for ping games.

-- 
Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-09 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 19:58 [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access Linas Vepstas
2005-01-06 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07  0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07  0:26   ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-07  0:25     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07  1:54       ` Alan Cox
2005-01-09 10:44         ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2005-01-09 22:31           ` David Wagner
2005-01-09 23:00           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-10 20:43             ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-08  2:37 ` Keith Owens

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