Re: [PATCH] [2.6] PPC64: log firmware errors during boot.

[linas@austin.ibm.com]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:41:16AM -0500, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> 
> > > Firmware can report errors at any time, and not atypically during boot.
> > > However, these reports were being discarded until th rtasd comes up,
> > > which occurs fairly late in the boot cycle.  As a result, firmware
> > > errors during boot were being silently ignored.
> 
> Linas, the main consumer of error-log is events coming in from
> event-scan.  We don't call event-scan until rtasd is up (eg they are
> queued in FW until we call event-scan).  

Actually, they don't seem to be queueed at all; when I turned on 
logging earlier, a whole pile of messages poped out that weren't 
visible before.

> The only events I see us
> missing are epow events, 

Depends on what you are doing.  In my case, the fact that the 
early-boot messages were discarded was hiding a bug (that was causing
those messages, that I've sent in a patch for).

--linas