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From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 03:47:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A83D8EE.8090500@megapathdsl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A83B6B0.8261F3CF@idb.hist.no> <3A83C4A1.5090903@megapathdsl.net> <20010209123640.B17129@almesberger.net>

Werner Almesberger wrote:

> Miles Lane wrote:
> 
>> Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would
>> still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what 
>> the problem is with at least making this an option.
> 
> 
> Except if some initialization hangs your machine so badly that it even
> won't respond to Ctrl-Alt-F2.
> 
> This could of course be cured by a little window where the last three or
> four printk lines are shown ...

Actually, this is the best reason I've heard for not including
this "prettyfication" functionality at all.  Obviously, we
_do_ want people to be able to collect a complete OOPS.

I suppose perhaps an even more useful tweak to the this
idea would be that if the user holds down a special key
during the start of boot, the whole prettyfication stuff
isn't used and the VT number 1 gets all the boot messages.

	Miles

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-09 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-09  9:21 [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1 Helge Hafting
2001-02-09  9:32 ` David Lang
2001-02-09 10:21 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-09 11:36   ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-09 11:47     ` Miles Lane [this message]
2001-02-09 12:28       ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-10  3:50     ` Nick Papadonis
2001-02-09 16:40   ` Mike Porter
2001-02-11 22:47   ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-12 17:18     ` Peter Kundrat
2001-02-12 22:00     ` Miles Lane
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-01 17:32 Juergen Schneider
2001-02-07 23:40 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-08 12:37   ` Mike A. Harris
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102080736190.5431-100000@as df.capslock.lan>
2001-02-08 14:08       ` christophe barbe
2001-02-08 18:42         ` Miles Lane
2001-02-09  7:03         ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]           ` <Pine.Linu.4.10.10102090732320.1612-100000@ mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-02-09  8:12             ` christophe barbe
2001-02-09  9:45               ` Mike Galbraith
2001-02-12 11:00                 ` Adrian Cox
2001-02-11 14:07     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-12 15:23 ` Martin Laberge
2001-02-12 22:31   ` Miles Lane
2001-02-13  3:46 ` Rafael E. Herrera
2001-02-13  5:10 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-13  7:11   ` Rafael E. Herrera

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