On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:07:44PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:

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- 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.

Yes, I added a link to the video of this presentation in PATCH #0/2.

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Darwish