Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2001 13:25 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > I'm interested in using netconsole early (during boot). > > Any problems doing that, other than getting module parameters > > to it? I can fix that part. > > I was thinking about this as well. It should be relatively easy to allow > a line line "console=eth0,XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX,a.b.c.d" or similar. The only > slight problem might be in configuring the interface early enough in the > boot process. AFAIK (which isn't much in this area) the serial console > has special "console" code which allows it to be used very early in the > boot process. > > You would obviously need to have the network driver compiled into the kernel > and not a module. Maybe Ingo can hack something where it is possible > to initialize the network code very early in the boot process? Well, I have netconsole-in-kernel (+ AD patches + RD patches) built and parsing parameters, but not getting active nearly soon enough. I'll continue to work on that...hints appreciated/accepted. ~Randy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
