Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:05:08 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: oops pauser. |
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>See the other patch I sent which halves the amount of lines needed >for a backtrace on i386 (like x86-64 uses). This helps too. > .oO( Compress the oops, encode it base64 and display that instead )Oo. :-)
> > Is it be possible to change the VGA mode to 80x43/80x50/80x60 > > during protected mode? > >After an oops, we can't really rely on anything. What if the >oops came from the console layer, or a framebuffer driver? > Well, setting the video mode can be done (on x86, ugh) with a BIOS call, so we would not need to run through oops-affected code. But that was the question, if this int 0x10 call was possible at all. Think of VBE - VBE3 is the first version that can be done in protected mode.
>If I had any faith in the sturdyness of the floppy driver, I'd >recommend someone looked into a 'dump oops to floppy' patch, but >it too relies on a large part of the system being in a sane >enough state to write blocks out to disk. > Right, sad world. (With fun I await the day someone writes a morse encoder that writes oops to keyboard leds.)
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