On 3/6/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:48:01PM -0500, James Olin Oden wrote: > > On 3/6/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >Humm, not that I know of. And considering we are talking about PC hardware > > >here (are we?), I can't imagine how it can be possible. > > I'm definately no expert here, but PC hardware has many hardware level > > debuging hooks that apps such as oprofile take advantage of. > > Sure does, but how does one recover from a hardware lockup ? > Well say the PCI buses timing gets hosed and the whole system seizes up what do you intened to do at that point (that is a hardware lockup)? And what does that thing you do have to do with debuging a kernel? Just curious. > Even if it were possible to have that kind of debugging, it would be > fairly limited. When you say "hardware" I start thinking jtag interfaces, or even more interesting was this thing we would place every pin of the processor through and then connect to the socket on the motherboard, but I think I missing something. Cheers...james > > []s > > - -- > Rodrigo Barbosa > "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" > "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF7dU5pdyWzQ5b5ckRAulTAJoCkLfle7XdVtdkslQA/dtarhi7dwCgqhcP > J7gca8LOUB+8j+5pXjaAf2A= > =PS7U > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >