On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 08:34:49AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 13:37:44 -0500,
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
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>I have something particular I am testing now (probably a nouveau related
>crash) that crashes for netconsole gets loaded (though I tried to add it
>to the initramfs to get it loaded fairly early). I am not sure if it will
>be early enough even if it is built in. I won't know until sometime
>tomorrow. But if it does get loaded early enough to handle video card
>related stuff, it seems like it be worth having built into debug kernels.
The crash appears appears to be happening too early to send netconsole
output even when netconsole is builtin to the kernel.
iirc, you also need to build-in your NIC driver for this to work this early
Dave