Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > I would assume however a serial port console would be fine for embedded
> > > machines until the framebuffer driver could come up anyway.
> > > 
> > This would be an incorrect assumption.  Speaking as a developer of one
> > said embedded system I must have video at boot and be able to dump
> > critical kernel messages to the screen.
> 
> I don't see it as the kernel's responsibility to compensate for lack
> of something in an embedded system's BIOS. Embedded programmers are
> free to go in and add basic display code to their arch specific
> directories for printing out this class of messages. Better yet would
> be to fix the embedded ROM to support basic display.

Unfortunately, this is not only problem of embedded bootup but also of
resume (from suspend-to-RAM) on plain i386 notebook near you...

								Pavel
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