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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.

Hi Bodo,

if you are willing to put some effort into the ability to scroll the
console after panic, it might be worthwile to look making the keyboard
driver work even after panic (i.e. poll the keyboard, rather than relying
on interrupts).

That has significantly smaller potential of breaking because the system is
expected to be dead after panic (watchdogs, broken data structures in
memory, etc).

--
Jiri Kosina


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