mgross wrote:
You know some platforms that perserve the memory above some addresses across
warm boots. For such platforms, one could reserve a buffer in that area can
copy the sys log buffer to it on panic along with a bit pattern that could be
searched for upon the next boot.
I've worked on a few blades that had this. Serial console wasn't going
to be available in the field, so being able to just dump debug
information to persistent memory was really nice.
Chris
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