[Netconsole-devel] status?

[Jim G. <ga...@ll...>]

Hi,

Anyone doing any work on this project?

A colleague pointed the sourceforge project out to me.  I have some code
already developed that enables me to do linux consoles over the Quadrics 
Elan cluster interconnect, and I had planned to extend this to include 
ethernet if I could figure out how to do it in a non-hardware-specific way.

On the elan, I can run a getty, capture printk's, even shutdown to single
user and come back up again.  What I can't currently do is store the
identity of the node that currently is connected to the console across a 
reboot, or of course, to talk to the BIOS (unless the BIOS is LinuxBIOS!)

Ultimately I would like to have this work over ethernet on an API CS20 node,
which has ethernet wake-on-lan for power management and can do LinuxBIOS.
In theory I could then dispense with serial consoles in a large cluster of 
CS20's.

Jim