Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics

John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:58:52 +0000 (GMT)

> 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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