Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:14:18 +0300 (IDT)
From: Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why no XML in the Kernel?
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Dave Airlie wrote:

>> 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).

You don't need to reboot. You can use some tools to restore text 
mode - svgalib comes with three such tools, that work in large majority
of the cases:
textmode (on all platforms), mode3 and vga_reset (i386 only).

> 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... :-)

I intend to put that part of svgalib in kernel (restoring modes), 
since it would make the most complicated part of svgalib -- console 
switch handling -- much simpler. The problem is that svgalib only 
handles video mode, totally ignoring 2D/3D engines, so it might


-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org

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