From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: my opinion about VGA devices
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:16:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410202216.35464.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41765A8C.2020309@dbservice.com>
> I guess that you are talking about the fact that displaying text
> messages would be possible only after the first device driver has
> initialized and registered with the kernel.
No, the kernel cannot print at all.
> You could do the printing in two stages: at the begining the same way as
> in the current kernel, but as soon as the first driver is registered,
> the kernel switches to the function provided by the driver.
The current kernel can print only if the video chipset is initialised
to a certain degree, which usually the firmware or the boot loader
provide for.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-19 22:10 my opinion about VGA devices Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 11:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-20 12:31 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 12:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 14:14 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 14:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 15:01 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <4178F276.2040501@globalintech.pl>
2004-10-22 11:58 ` Tomas carnecky
2004-10-22 19:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-20 20:16 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-10-20 17:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22 8:29 ` Helge Hafting
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-19 18:51 Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-23 16:11 ` Blizbor
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