Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:26:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic |
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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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