Re: Linux 3.2.19 kernel panic does not enter KDB

[richard -rw- weinberger]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Eric Valette <eric.valette@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> I think you are on the wrong list. Nvidia have kernel source code, we
>> don't have code to their proprietary stuff. Only they can help you.
>>
>> It's quite possible the box is hanging so hard that kdb can't help you.
>> In that case you'll again need someone with their proprietary Nvidia
>> source to help you.
>
>
> Maybe you are still annoyed by the picture linus has posted but that type of
> answer helps nothing. I know nobody there is going to debug nvidia driver
> but I'm not even sure its not something else. Neither are you.
>
> So the bug is still that KDB is not entered.

The problem with proprietary code is that *anything* can happen.
If the crash happened within the Nvidia binary blob you are toasted...

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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