Re: oops pauser.

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:15:55PM +0100, you [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.

Please try kmsgdump. 

It has its own real-mode terminal (with scrolling) to which it switches on
oops. Hung kernel console doesn't affect it.



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