Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:26:37 +0000

Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be said:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> > My problem with OOPs's is that usually, when one happens.. it is > 25
> > lines, and scrolls off the screen before the machine is at a dead
> > halt. Of course, when this happens, that oops sure isn't going to be
> > written to the logs.

> Linux/m68k on Amiga has a solution for this: it allocates a piece of
> Chip RAM and stores all kernel messages in it. After a reboot, you can
> use a special program to find them.

I'd like to see a SysRq hotkey to dump the buffer to serial/parport. 

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