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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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> There's a *REASON* that IBM RS/6K boxes have at least a little 3-digit LED
> display - during boot or a panic, even if you can't trust the console drivers
> anymore, you can still output *something*.

By the way, you can buy cards with LED displays on which monitor port
80h, and tell you how far through the boot process a box is getting.
Not much use on a laptop, though :-).

John.
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