Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Daniel Hazelton <> | | Subject | Re: Video drivers and System Management mode. | | Date | Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:20 -0400 |
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:30 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:07 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know we all laugh about the windows blue screen of death, but to be > > fair, when Linux oops, it is not even able to display anything on the > > screen, unless in dump terminal mode. I.e. Not X or some other GUI. > > > > Are there any plans to implement a sort of interactive system management > > mode, that would pop up a window when Linux oops. Something like the > > program called SoftICE for windows would be a nice addition to Linux, > > and help with kernel development. > > kdb would definitely be a good starting point. But I don't think it > works if you're in X when the kernel crashes. >
This problem is being addressed by the work several of us are doing on the kernel graphics system. Hopefully this will be addressed in the first major patch.
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