From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751189AbWFLCBX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbWFLCBX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.enter.net ([216.193.128.24]:13318 "EHLO smtp.enter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbWFLCBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:22 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton To: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Video drivers and System Management mode. Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <448C5BF0.7070601@superbug.demon.co.uk> <1150054232.14253.157.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1150054232.14253.157.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606112201.21027.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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