[coreboot] Panic room

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Feb 22 18:49:18 CET 2010


On 2/22/10 5:59 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>   
>>> I still try to fancy what that panic room is. Is it the gdb
>>> handler for the case that gdb is enabled?
>>>       
>> in my ideal world, the panic room is SerialICE.
>>     
> That's a nice idea.
>
> I think interesting suggestions for panic room go from debugging
> (SerialICE, gdb) to monitor (console menu for file transfer and
> flashing) and beyond.
>
> For board porters it's definately most useful to get debugging. For
> production use maybe monitor mode is more useful. Or even something
> like a RAM scrubber as a simple failsafe?
>
> I guess we don't want to limit ourselves to just one choice here.
>   
Well, one choice is better than none and the world was not invented in a
day ...




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