From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:23:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070901172301.GA4275@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070901125120.GC3251@implementation.famille.thibault.fr>
Hi!
> > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and
> > > userland may hang.
> >
> > Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these
> > days, and kernel may hang, too.
>
> Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail.
> The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some
> messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting
> earliest failure messages from the kernel?
No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot
process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for
heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual.
So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-01 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 0:57 [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility Samuel Thibault
2007-08-21 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-21 20:22 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-08-25 1:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-27 14:59 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-08-21 20:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-21 20:49 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-07-12 19:19 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-01 12:26 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-09-01 12:32 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-01 12:51 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-09-01 17:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-09-01 17:33 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-09-01 18:18 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-01 19:36 ` Samuel Thibault
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