linux-kernel - Re: Overriding X on panic

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Message-ID: <20061126024804.GA31281@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:48:04 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@...u.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Overriding X on panic

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:10:43PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> > modesettings to use can still be in userspace, the execution of the
> > series of IO's would be in the kernel, and the kernel would store
> > bundles of settings, including a "rescue" one, but also for
> > suspend/resume...
> 
> The mode switch sequences for modern cards are a bit more hairy than
> lists of I/O poking unfortunately. 

The int 10 call to get back to text mode generally seems to work, but, 
uh. Yeah. Maybe not.

(I'm sure nobody would /really/ object to linking x86emu into the 
kernel...)
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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