Re: oops pauser.

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >> So would it be viable to take over the screen in similar fashion?
> >>
> >> Set it to 80x50 in BIOS and dump there --> call it the Penguin Oops
> >> screen, or Poops for short :o)
> >
> >It does take over the screen.  80x50 isn't needed since it knows how
> >to scroll the kernel log buffer on 80x25.
>
> It's needed because scrolling back might be impossible (shift-up in panic
> = no-go), not because it knows how to scroll.

Oh, I see.  You are talking about the kernel message(s), not
kmsgdump.  Sorry, I switched to kmsgdump there somehow.
Yes, more info on the screen from the kernel would be good.

-- 
~Randy
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