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Subject: Re: KDB_TRACE in GENERIC
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on 19/06/2010 17:39 Ulrich Spörlein said the following:
> On Sat, 19.06.2010 at 10:49:26 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I propose to add the following options into GENERIC (perhaps only i386 and amd64):
>>
>> options         KDB
>> options         KDB_TRACE
>> options         KDB_UNATTENDED
>> options		SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY  # <- not sure about his one
>>
>> This would increase kernel size only by a fraction, would not result in any POLA
>> violations (KDB_UNATTENDED, SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY) and would provide a useful service.
>>
>> Currently we get many panic reports that are almost impossible to analyze
>> because there is no stack trace.  Especially this is true for panics at
>> installation time, when people use GENERIC from release media and do not have
>> ability to try a custom kernel.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> I'd rather propose we turn on textdumps, as many people will be in X11
> when disaster strikes and there's no easy way to get the crashdump then.

Would you really "rather" propose it?  Or propose it in addition to what I
proposed?  Or as a next step even? :-)
BTW, as I said, I am very much concerned about panics that people get when
running (trying to run) FreeBSD installation image, X is not a factor at that stage.


-- 
Andriy Gapon