Subject: Re: Using netconsole for debugging suspend/resume

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:38:56 -0400

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2006 17:24, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> If your laptop has firewire you can also use firescope.
>>> (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/firescope/) 
>> ..
>>> FW keeps running as long as nobody resets the ieee1394 chip.
>> This looks interesting.  But how does one set it up for use
>> on the *other* end of that firewire cable?  The Quickstart and
>> manpage don't seem to describe this fully.
> 
> It's in the manpage:
> 
>> .SH NOTES
>> The target must have the ohci1394 driver loaded. This implies
>> that firescope cannot be used in early boot.
> 
> That's it.

Okay, so I'm daft.  But.. *what* is "it" ??

We have two machines:  target (being debugged), and host (anything).
Sure, the target has to have ohci1394 loaded, and firescope running.
But what about the *other* end of the connection?  What commands?

Thanks