Alan Stern <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> > In previous conversations, Alan Stern had raised the issue of console also
> > not working if interrupts are disabled on all the devices. I am not sure
> > but this should be working at least for serial consoles and vga text consoles.
>
> > May be sufficient to capture the dump.
>
> This isn't an issue for x86. It affects other architectures, in which the
> system console is managed during the early stages of booting by the
> platform firmware. I suppose serial consoles would always work.
In the plain kexec case that should be doable. I don't think
I have heard of a kdump case where we can work with the platform
firmware.
Eric
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