Re: Alternatives to serial console for oops.

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 05:04:25 EST


On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Mateusz Berezecki wrote:
> On 11/27/05, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Pen & paper to manually write down the Oops.
>
> you really need to be _desperate_ :-) I tried this literally _once_ .

Obviously you never flashed the screen using 8 colors (3 bits of information),
to transfer a crash dump message...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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