Re: Boot Consoles question...

[Ingo Molnar]

* Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Quick question...
> 
> In register_console()
> 
>         if (bcon && ((newcon->flags & (CON_CONSDEV | CON_BOOT)) == 
> CON_CONSDEV)) {
> 		[[snip]]
>                 newcon->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER;
>         }
> 
> So - when we are switching over from a boot console to a "real" 
> console - we don't back up the console, and print everything out.
> 
> This means that the boot console is on a different device than 
> that "real" console - you don't actually see the full boot message 
> (from log_start) on the "real" console.
> 
> Is this what is intended (that the boot message gets split into 2 
> - 1/3 going into the bootconsole - and the remaining to to the 
> real console?)
> 
> I can understand this when both (boot and real) are the same 
> device (serial) or vga, but where they are not - it is a little 
> confusing to the user - isn't it?

Could be changed i guess ... but is it really an issue? All messages 
should be in the syslog buffer (if it's large enough). One artifact 
could be manual scroll-back - it would perhaps be nice indeed to 
allow the scrollback to the top of the bootlog.

	Ingo
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