Re: panic options

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2023-09-12 23:55, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Is there any way to get panic(9) to behave differently in some places
> than others?
>
> There is a call to panic() if the kernel detects that there is no
> console device found, I would like to make this call to it just reboot
> without dropping into ddb.
>
> The amdgpu driver fails to initialize about 9 times in 10 for me so
> would like to reduce the amount of typing needed.

Well. Not completely what you ask for, but...

sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=0 (or even -1)

You could place that in /etc/sysctl.conf as well. See sysctl(7) for some 
more details.

  Johnny

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