From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161154AbWAHTlF (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161142AbWAHTlF (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:41:05 -0500 Received: from relay02.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([202.136.32.45]:8102 "EHLO relay02.mail-hub.dodo.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161154AbWAHTlE (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:41:04 -0500 From: Grant Coady To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: vherva@vianova.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops pauser. Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:40:57 +1100 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: gcoady@gmail.com Message-ID: <6cq2s1d3glnj56pcrqlj84s8ltilmo6jfp@4ax.com> References: <20060105045212.GA15789@redhat.com> <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> <20060108133822.GD31624@vianova.fi> <20060108055322.18d4236e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060108055322.18d4236e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:53:22 -0800, "Randy.Dunlap" wrote: >On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:38:22 +0200 Ville Herva wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:33:39AM -0500, you [Dave Jones] wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> I believe kmsgdump (http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/) uses its own >> minimal 16-bit floppy driver to save the oops dump. > >It just switches to real mode and uses BIOS calls. 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) Grant.