Re: [PATCH] x86_64 stack trace cleanup

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 24 February 2006 13:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I can offer you a deal though: if you fix VGA scrollback to have
> >  at least 1000 lines by default we can change the oops formatting too.
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc4/2.6.16-rc4-mm2/broken-out/vgacon-add-support-for-soft-scrollback.patch

Once that is in and works we can consider changing the oopses.

> Problem is, scrollback doesn't work after panic().  I don't know why..

Someone claimed it was related to the panic keyboard blinking.  Never verified 
though. But without it working we still can't change the oops.

-Andi
 
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