[Skiboot] trace settings

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Mon Sep 17 11:17:48 AEST 2018


Raymond Higgs <raymond.higgs at broadcom.com> writes:
> Thanks guys!  I was able to increase the log level for the serial console.
>
> [   62.433574272,7] NVRAM: Searched for 'log-level-driver' found '7'
> [   62.433575728,5] console: Setting driver log level to 7
>
>
> I appreciate the tips about how changing the log levels affects the
> system.  I'll definitely avoid insane!
>
> The IBM documentation that I had reviewed was from here:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/9006-22P/p9hdx/9006_22p_pdf_files.htm

Ahh yep. No user should ever need to go poke at any of the ibm,skiboot
partition options, and if they do, then we've failed somewhere and need
to fix a bug.

Mind you, some users are not your average user and may have a need for
it. :)

> Thanks for the link to the more detailed firmware document.  I wasn't aware
> of it.

It's getting into a state where showing others isn't terribly
embarrassing, so maybe we should start to put pointers to it in the more
official docs?

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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