From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:20:03 +0100 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: 2.3.27 on CHRP Longtrail Message-Id: <19991112172003.001697@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Not directly related, but... While working on OF booting with the iBook (I really want to get rid of BootX with those new machines, on of the reason beeing a nightmare compatibiliy problem with the new iMac DV and Swathoo G4s), I quickly hacked my early boot text mode to work with the OF display. Basically, that means that it's possible to display debugging text from almost every point of the kernel initialisation (using mostly xmon_printf) before the fb is up and running, even while OF output can no more be used (after MMU init). It's too hackish for now, and I have no time to post a patch before later today or this week end, I'll try to clean this a little bit and separate it from the main bunch of iBook patches since i could be useful for others too. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/