Re: Kernel Debugging Hardware
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 15 May 1997 14:13:20 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What would be better is to make a real crashdumper for the kernel.
> > Something akin to what Sun or FreeBSD has.
> >
> > Have a peep at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook263.html#588
> > to see how FreeBSD does it.
> Have you ever had a SunOS box get somewhat scrambled and dump its memory
> image over / - sometimes Id be happier with an external log.
Havent heard of any FreeBSD boxes stomping / though. So however they do
it, it must be more robust than Sun.
For the terminally paranoid, perhaps crash dumps could be made over the
parallel port to a machine configured to grab them.
-Dan