Re: Patch against CVS-971013 - sound, console

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
16 Oct 1997 17:58:01 +0200

In article <E0xLg38-0001c1-00@dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>The other thing I forgot to remove before making the diff is a small patch to allow console devices to be registered and unregistered by modules. Currently the only module which uses this is the MDA display driver, which isn't even with the kernel. I'm working on a printer patch, too, which will allow oopses etc. to be sent to a parallel printer synchronously. No more tedious copying down messages by hand :)

I have rewritten most of the console handling for 2.1.x especially for
multiple auxilary console. A printer console is very easy to add, even
with modules etc. It's all configurable from the boot command line.

It even falls back to using /dev/ttyS0 as system console if a VGA card
cannot be detected in the system, etc.

Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> has integrated
the patches into Linux/PPC and Linux/m68k. I hope he can convice David
and/or Linus to integrate this stuff into the standard kernel. I've
been maintaining this stuff for years now :)

Mike.

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