Re: Video drivers and System Management mode.

[Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>]

On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:30 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:07 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know we all laugh about the windows blue screen of death, but to be
> > fair, when Linux oops, it is not even able to display anything on the
> > screen, unless in dump terminal mode. I.e. Not X or some other GUI.
> >
> > Are there any plans to implement a sort of interactive system management
> > mode, that would pop up a window when Linux oops. Something like the
> > program called SoftICE for windows would be a nice addition to Linux,
> > and help with kernel development.
>
> kdb would definitely be a good starting point.  But I don't think it
> works if you're in X when the kernel crashes.
>

This problem is being addressed by the work several of us are doing on the 
kernel graphics system. Hopefully this will be addressed in the first major 
patch.

DRH
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