[ros-dev] Making bluescreens more useful

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

Wouldn't the QR-enabled BSOD require us to draw the bsod screen in a
graphics mode rather than text?

Or are we using a graphics mode already?

On 12 January 2018 at 21:23, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer at web.de> wrote:

>
> I like it. I recently thought about another possibility to make the BSOD
> more useful: A QR code.
> A QR code can contain up to almost 3 KB of arbitrary data or 4 KB text.
>
> Here's a quick example (1425 characters)
> Try it out, use your phone and scan it :)
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> Am 11.01.2018 um 00:48 schrieb Thomas Faber:
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> We often get bug reports with just a screenshot of a bluescreen; we then
> go ahead and tell people that bluescreens are basically useless, they
> should get a debug log and a backtrace, and also remember to tell us
> what version they're using.
>
> Since there's actually no reason why bluescreens need to be useless, I
> thought I'd try to change that.
> I've attached an example. The source for this quick PoC can be found athttps://github.com/ThFabba/reactos/commit/6a9f172b76bd11f763598c16e5d47299eec1971c
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> Thoughts?
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