Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 18:18:45 +0000, a écrit :

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Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail.
The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some
messages before the hang.  Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting
earliest failure messages from the kernel?

No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot
process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for
heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual.

But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it.

How many such users are out there?

You know that it's a question that just can't be answered.  There are
such people, and their employment depend on this.

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So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something?

That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done).

I'd say kernel debugging is hard without accessible bootloader

A bootloader with only two entries is not so difficult to use blindly.

Samuel