Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030449AbVJEXq7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:46:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030450AbVJEXq7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:46:59 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.201]:24024 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030449AbVJEXq7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:46:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jVg35rMtxxMgrjZEmr2uRv4DL+IMV7H2PcolLOhihny8FmpCxMnjy6lKUe+53Bl0SFzUhnKvcdn6UXDNVm+szdS/yZnenHgdYK3sj7quMTdSW0Vz0LCB25i6kt3zD7AwptNyH8EdJ4d+L4yctbVAlWLHM+l8f9YcEtvq+vadxHo= Message-ID: <21d7e9970510051646q4074813cwfa843e6ad1b7ce44@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:46:57 +1000 From: Dave Airlie Reply-To: Dave Airlie To: jmerkey Subject: Re: Why no XML in the Kernel? Cc: Nix , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43445238.5030900@utah-nac.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051002094142.65022.qmail@web51012.mail.yahoo.com> <87oe66r62s.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20051003153515.GW7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <87zmpqbcws.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <21d7e9970510051411y2f2871a7mafa2e96cce277657@mail.gmail.com> <87br23odls.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <21d7e9970510051557u42ae32f0rca46e951c5da536f@mail.gmail.com> <8764sbwoj7.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <21d7e9970510051636g29012748o77124c1c1abc9259@mail.gmail.com> <43445238.5030900@utah-nac.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1040 Lines: 23 > > > How about putting the ability to disable graphics mode in the kernel and > moving this capability from X, and saving the video state. Would make > kernel debuggers work a hell of a lot better when the damn thing crashes > in X in the kernel. At least then the screen won;t be locked up (of > course you can type "reboot " from memory while the system is still hung > in X). > It's been on the todo list for a long while... there's been talks at different events about it, there'll be a talk at LCA from me again about it and what has happened since KS (not a huge amount).... We've nearly all agreed on a direction, we haven't found anyone with the bandwidth to actually move things in that direction... (or at least no-one has said to me heres some money go do this thing... :-) Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/