Garett,
What about the case when the crash is due to
the boot driver itself?(possibly some memory
corruption issue) Surely,it must reload the driver
albeit in a somewhat restricted mode? How does it work
then?
Thanks
Som
--- Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Javen Wu wrote:
> > hi Som,
> >
> > You need implement tran_reset() routine for
> coredump because sddump()
> > need the reset.
> >
>
> You need tran_reset() anyway! tran_abort() and
> tran_reset() may be
> called by sd driver when encountering certain error
> conditions, as I
> discovered myself.
>
> To support crash dumps, you also need to implement
> support for
> tran_start() when the pkt->pkt_flags includes
> FLAG_NOINTR. Interrupts
> are not enabled during dump(9e).
>
> -- Garrett
> > Cheers
> > Javen
> >
> > Somnath kotur wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi Javen,
> >>
> >> I tried searching the sun docs for any
> >> information on if there is anything to be done
> for
> >> crashdump support particularly when your
> SCSI/iSCSI
> >> driver is the boot driver , just got the
> >> administration guides ,and from them i got the
> >> impression that there is really NOT much to be
> done,
> >> could you pls confirm?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Som
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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