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  1. Re:Great idea but limited on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    That already exists in the kernel by providing "console=ttyS0,9600" or so on the command line. :-)

  2. Re:No way! on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    You don't have to buy a smartphone. This is entirely *optional* and 'classic' will not ever go away.

  3. Re:Huh? on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    I could read it with my phone, but yes that's what we agreed upon. I will implement scaling in the coming days

  4. Re:Great idea but limited on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    If your embedded board has a HDMI connector, then there is a great chance there is a framebuffer as well. AFAIK, most embedded system only ship a framebuffer and somekind of serial output interface. The real problem in fact is how would you get that framebuffer after a crash occured and you don't have a screen nearby to connect to the HDMI/VGA connector.

  5. Re:Worst idea I've heard in years. on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    They won't disappear, it's going to be optional and will be seamlessly available next to the text crash.

  6. Re:Huh? on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 2

    Yes this causes a big output since my (and I suspect yours as well) terminal uses size 12 fonts, but in the crash situation we do it one screen pixel per QR pixel. There is a file called qr_code.png in that folder I gave in the thread, which is the actual result unscaled. It's 147x147 which can fit on every screen I know of.
    How to handle textmode is still an ongoing question. We'll first get it working on the framebuffer then maybe we'll find a solution for textmode, if it's even possible.

  7. Re:Good idea on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 5, Informative

    We are encoding the full Oops, i.e. from the "cut here" to the "end trace" marker. Classic won't ever go away, and we had already created a configuration option called CONFIG_QR_OOPS that can disable this at all. In case your distro or you had compiled it in and you don't want to have QR codes on your screen, I just added a new kernel parameter currently called 'qr_oops', which can as well disable it.