F20 System Wide Change: Enable kdump on secureboot machines

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Jul 11 19:22:17 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> We will need a serial console to debug kdump issues. I am not expert
> enough to figure out how to reset graphical console without going
> through the bios. Is there any reliable way to do that.

Make sure the kdump kernel has graphics drivers - they should be able to 
reconfigure the device. Or just pass the framebuffer offset, size, 
stride and pixel format to the kdump kernel and have it treat it as an 
unaccelerated linear framebuffer.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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