From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:19:04 +0800 Message-ID: <200411030719.06138.adaplas@hotpop.com> References: Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jsimmons@infradead.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com On Wednesday 03 November 2004 06:57, Mark Fortescue wrote: > Will this work for a kernel Panic ? > Probably not, unless the 'Panic' tells fbcon to release the console and tells promcon to take over the console again. That in itself is problematic as fbcon cannot be safely unloaded yet. Tony From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:19:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems Message-Id: <200411030719.06138.adaplas@hotpop.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Fortescue Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jsimmons@infradead.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com On Wednesday 03 November 2004 06:57, Mark Fortescue wrote: > Will this work for a kernel Panic ? > Probably not, unless the 'Panic' tells fbcon to release the console and tells promcon to take over the console again. That in itself is problematic as fbcon cannot be safely unloaded yet. Tony