Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:56:39 -0800 | | Subject | RE: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic |
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> Yeah, i've done it countless times and it's very painful indeed - but the > alternative "losing context" would be even worse to me. Can we do both - i.e. have > the barcode on the screen alongside the oops itself? (although at that point they'll > be taking screen real estate from each other - degrading the information in *both* > venues.) > > Keyboard 'oops scrolling' driver with 'flip to barcode output' key? :-)
If we can make the screen scroll, or guarantee that a hot key will switch to the barcode view, then those look like good solutions. Sharing space on a non-scrollable view sounds like a poor choice. Perhaps better to have a command line option to say which to provide (default = text).
-Tony
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