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Message-ID: <20070901181845.GA4839@ucw.cz> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:18:45 +0000 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dtor@...l.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility Hi! > > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. > > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some > > > messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting > > > earliest failure messages from the kernel? > > > > No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot > > process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for > > heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual. > > But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it. How many such users are out there? > > So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something? > > That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done). I'd say kernel debugging is hard without accessible bootloader, so I'd hope number of such users is very low. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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