Re: Kernel panic by write to console while switching consoles.

[Jaap van den Handel <jaap@quest-innovations.com>]

> the console is enabled very early in the boot process in order to print some 
> info about the boot process itself. Read start_kernel() in 
> $(KERNEL_SOURCE)/init/main.c 
> for more info 

The console can be switched after the boot process has finished right? 
When loading a driver module for example. Then it would also crash when sombody 
prints to the screen. Only when booting this change is quite big. 

> This is a problem in 2.4, hopefully fixed by BenH in 2.6 by acquiring the 
> console semaphore at strategic places. 
> 
> Try placing acquire_console_sem(), release_console_sem() around the loop 
> in take_over_console() to disable early printing during console 
> initialization. 
> 

Thanks for the reply, glad to know somebody is working on it. 

Greetings 
Jaap van den Handel

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