On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:07:44PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > >- The latest approach (proposed by Linus) is to forget the disk: jump to > > real-mode, but display the kernel log in a fancy format (with scroll > > ups and downs) instead. > > A while ago (first Plumbers conference?) someone was talking about > using a 2-d barcode to display the tail of the kernel log & oops > register data - with the plan that you could capture the image with > a cell phone camera, and then get all the oops data without worrying > about transcription errors as you wrote down & re-typed all the hex. > > Anyone know what happened to that plan? How is this more useful than a photograph of the backtrace ? Dave
