Re: [PATCH] [2.6] PPC64: log firmware errors during boot.

From: Hollis Blanchard
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 09:19:04 EST


On Jul 2, 2004, at 5:44 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

Netlink is the usual solution to this sort of problem. I think it
would be reasonable to printk RTAS error events with a severity of
fatal and maybe even of error. Warnings and events should just get
sent to rtasd.

I asked about this before, and was told that there is no way to determine the severity of an event without doing full parsing of the binary data. I'd be thrilled to be wrong...

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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