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
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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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