On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:57:54 +0200 Pierre Ossman wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > >Have you managed to get netconsole running? Do you have no chance at all > >to use a serial console? You are, perhaps, the only / last user of dc395x > >on a high-mem machine, the driver is known to have a problem there, > >although from your dump I cannot see yet if that is indeed the problem. As > >someone also already suggested, you could also just try to reduce your > >terminal font size to fit the entire Oops on the monitor. I've tried to > >make a patche for the high-mem problem of dc395x, but we didn't have any > >testers. So, would be nice if you could help. > > > > I never got netconsole running no. And serial setup is a bit pesky. I'll > try changing the font size when I get access to the machine again (this > weekend). Pierre, I apologize for my slowness, but I finally tested netconsole (with netcat on the receiving side) and it worked for me. test system boots with: netconsole=6665@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/eth0,6666@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/00:0e:35:4c:9a:0c and the target system runs netcat (nc): nc -l -u -p 6666 > As far as I know the machine is not a high-mem machine. It is only > equipped with 1 GB memory. I have no intention of changing the > SCSI-controller in that machine so I'll be glad to test any patches. Be > warned that I don't have the machine close by though so it might take a > day or two before I can test anything you send. --- ~Randy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
