Ill look through GNATS and see whats up.
> > I'm leaning toward the way IRIX does dumps now... which nullifies
> > all arguments against 'confused hardware'. This will only be
> > possible if a way can be found to prevent BIOS from stomping all
> > over memory on a warmboot though.
> Going over the network might be safe, since you could disable
> disk access first. Maybe use a separate network stack with a
> really simple non-standard (not IP) protocal. It could use
> Ethernet broadcast and forget any streaming features.
Ooh. Many routers (Cisco, Morningstar, etc) have the option to do a
crash dump via tftp. This has the advantage that its easily supported, and
the protocol is very simple. Would this be a reasonable approach? E.g.
dump /proc/kcore via tftp to a specified host.
-Dan