Re: Kernel Debugging Hardware
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 14 May 1997 22:32:25 +0100 (BST)
> 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. Also the external
log is a timed event log not a snapshot, so you tend to see things like
-SMP- kicking CPU
CPU#1 Ouch!
CPU#1 Trying to go 32bit
CPU#1 fault - I give up