Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:15:55 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: oops pauser. |
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>> So would it be viable to take over the screen in similar fashion? >> >> Set it to 80x50 in BIOS and dump there --> call it the Penguin Oops >> screen, or Poops for short :o) > >It does take over the screen. 80x50 isn't needed since it knows how >to scroll the kernel log buffer on 80x25.
It's needed because scrolling back might be impossible (shift-up in panic = no-go), not because it knows how to scroll.
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