From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:58:07 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <9e47339104101516585e590a6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <200410160551.40635.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e47339104101516206c8597d3@mail.gmail.com> <416FFFFD.28877.2F2B6C9@localhost> Reply-To: Jon Smirl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <416FFFFD.28877.2F2B6C9@localhost> List-Id: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:51:09 -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: > I have not used initramfs at all (I am not sure I know what it is > actually) so I don't know. I know there is quite a long period of time on > most machines from when the kernel starts booting and when the real file > system based init process takes over. initramfs/initrd comes up very early in the boot process. For example it holds your supplemental device drivers and initial /dev. /dev/console is opened from this /dev so it much be up before the console is. This is much earlier than normal user space starts. I believe the current Fedora 3 uses udev from initramfs, but I haven't tried it yet. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com