> I really like the "soft" panic better, where you still can operate the 
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> kernel debugging features, but just have no user space supporting it.

There is no specific reason many kernel debugging features (sysrq, scrollback) 
cannot work in the hard panic -- except that nobody coded it yet.

-Andi
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