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SubjectRe: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> The only way to avoid a crashed console is to simply avoid it.
> Meaning: the system must always be aware of the video registers.
> There is no recovery once the board crashes.

Perhaps the video driver could allocate memory at a fixed physical
address and always maintain the state there, and then at initialization
time check for some magic numbers (do a checksum, etc.) to see whether a
prior state existed. This would provide a warm reboot capability (as
long as the system doesn't clear all memory at boot time.)

Of course, why anyone would design a board that can't be initialized is
completely beyond me ...

Regards,
Bill

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