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From: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Video drivers and System Management mode.
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606112201.21027.dhazelton@enter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150054232.14253.157.camel@mindpipe>

On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:30 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:07 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know we all laugh about the windows blue screen of death, but to be
> > fair, when Linux oops, it is not even able to display anything on the
> > screen, unless in dump terminal mode. I.e. Not X or some other GUI.
> >
> > Are there any plans to implement a sort of interactive system management
> > mode, that would pop up a window when Linux oops. Something like the
> > program called SoftICE for windows would be a nice addition to Linux,
> > and help with kernel development.
>
> kdb would definitely be a good starting point.  But I don't think it
> works if you're in X when the kernel crashes.
>

This problem is being addressed by the work several of us are doing on the 
kernel graphics system. Hopefully this will be addressed in the first major 
patch.

DRH

      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-11 18:07 Video drivers and System Management mode James Courtier-Dutton
2006-06-11 19:30 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-12  2:01   ` Daniel Hazelton [this message]

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