Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

[Martin Waitz]

hi :)

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:20:58AM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It doesn't imply this at all. You set an initial mode with the BIOS
> > during boot up. When your initrd runs you gain the ability to flip mode
> > and do cool stuff - arguably it doesn't even need to be in initrd.
> 
> That works great on x86, but this solution was developed for PowerPC and 
> MIPS embedded systems development not x86 desktop systems. For those 
> platforms you either need a boot loader that can bring up the system into 
> graphics mode

not neccessarily.

If anything goes wrong before console is initialized, then that could
be displayed by the firmware.
Is there any arch which doesn't have some basic text-output
functunality in its firmware?

-- 
Martin Waitz

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