Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:37:09PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > The problem is that this would imply that the console would only
> > work after user space is running. Even with initrd that's quite late.
> 
> klibc + initramfs + early userspace?

That's still quite late in my book (by my perspective may be skewed
a bit from low level architecture hacking) 

Ok I guess for debugging architectures it would work as long as you
have usable early console support everywhere that can be easily 
enabled when anything goes wrong.


-Andi
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