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Linux 6.12 To Optionally Display A QR Code During Kernel Panics (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

I agree, it's a great idea. The limitation is that the maximum amount of data a QR code can hold is about 3kB. Assuming the encoded data is compressed - either mostly ASCII and compressed, or a custom serialization format referencing external lookup tables - you could reasonably fit around 10kB of debugging information into a single QR code. That's not too shabby.