On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 13:21 -0800, Gayatri Kammela wrote:
Update the README file to let users aware of the usage of netconsole
feature in LUV.
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon(a)linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gayatri Kammela <gayatri.kammela(a)intel.com>
---
meta-luv/README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/meta-luv/README b/meta-luv/README
index b640ee9cadfe..c5bae5eb2831 100644
--- a/meta-luv/README
+++ b/meta-luv/README
@@ -58,3 +58,21 @@ Then it is necessary to specify the luv distribution in local.conf.
e.g.:
DISTRO = "luv"
+
+
+Usage of Netconsole within LUV
+===============================
+
Perhaps you can start by stating the use of netconsole. Something like
netconsole allows you to listen to debug messages on a "listening"
system via network.
+In order to make use of the netconsole feature that is added in LUV
+user must aware of its usage. Assuming users know how to get ip address and
+port number (typically from 6000 ports are not assigned to specific tasks so
+they can be used) , instructions are given below to follow
You could mention a command the user could use in Linux to obtain the IP
address.
+
+Choose the ip address and port number where you want all messages to sent to.
+once decided , you can replace the dummy ip address and port number given
+in grub.cfg
as netconsole=@,64001@10.11.12.13/ with the port number and ipaddress
+respectively.
+
+The grub.cfg file is located in boot partition. The location is
+EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg. Edit the file to replace the numbers and notation should be
+preserved for identifying the difference between ipaddress and port number.
Hmm a limitation here can be that the boot partition is not visible in
Windows system as Windows only allows to mount the first partitions it
finds in a removable disk. Unfortunately, the result partition is the
first partition. However, it seems to me that netconsole could take the
parameters from any file and not strictly from the kernel parameters
(you modprobe netconsole and configure it in your netconsole script).
Thus, a good solution could be to have a file in the results partition
that your script can access.
Thanks and BR,
Ricardo