From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:03:12 -0600 From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] port/devcons.c is not port-able In-Reply-To: <40F53D8A.4080005@anvil.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0e376aa-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dave Lukes wrote: > Problem is, when there's a "panic: smashed stack" type condition, > after that, the only complexity that matters is the complexity of the > code path leading to the characters becoming humanly visible. weirdly enough, I've used ethernet consoles on linux for a while (UDP however) and you can have fairly amazing levels of oops that you can get out over the network ... > Is there any space in nvram where one could dump the last N > bytes of console output? At least that way you'd be able to see it > eventually ... you have a hard limit on rewriting flash. There's no NVRAM big enough for the messages. Life sucks. > Of course, what would be cool would be a "panic display": an lcd with > some nvram that keeps the last message in it. not a good idea for 1024+ ondes ... ron