On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:38:02AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > May hang be done optional? There was a discussion about applying > > "panic" reboot timeout here. Is it possible to implement somehow? > > It would be tricky, but might be possible. But that would be a completely > new feature -- the kernel has always hung in this case. If you think you need > it submit a (followup) patch. But I don't think it's fair to ask Vivek to do > it.
I'm asking cc list of specialists here. I'm studying code, as you can see, but i'm far from patch capability in this area (btw, any hard-copy of old or modern BIOS specs will be appreciated ;). > Besides i don't think it would be any useful. panic reboot only > makes sense if you can recover after reboot. But if your CPU somehow > suddenly loses its ability to run 64bit code, no reboot of the world will > recover. It will burn CPU, until power cycle will be done (my AMD64 laptop and Intel's amd64 destop PC require that). In case of reboot timeout (or just reboot with jump to BIOS), i will just choose another image to boot or will press F8 to have another boot device. (I have one usb stick with GRUB and many images on it, and i can boot many systems as well. And booting from it sometimes fails on various stages). > -Andi _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
