Re: [PATCH] panic.c: export panic_on_oops

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> I care about this because i still havent given up hope that the company 
> you are working for will finally give us some permanent storage in the 
> CPU itself, so that we can have cross-reboot printk buffering ;-) 

Why would it have to be in the CPU? If we had decent firmware, couldn't
we just look at the old kernel's log_buf in RAM?

On machines where coreboot is supported (which is mostly machines
_other_ than those from my employer, unfortunately), you ought to be
able to do this today.

-- 
dwmw2

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