From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932377AbWAFFxc (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:53:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWAFFxc (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:53:32 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:15673 "EHLO pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932377AbWAFFxb (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:53:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:52:18 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: oops pauser. In-reply-to: <5rAHn-5kc-9@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43BE0592.3040200@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5rvok-5Sr-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <5ryvR-2aN-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <5rAHn-5kc-9@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > After an oops, we can't really rely on anything. What if the > oops came from the console layer, or a framebuffer driver? In this case, maybe it wouldn't work.. but I think it would be helpful a big majority of the time. Surely there must be a way this could be done. After all, Windows seems to manage to fairly reliably switch the display into VGA 80x50 mode and put up the BSOD with error dump information with reasonably good reliability.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/