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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	KendallB@scitechsoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: 16 Oct 2004 02:55:44 +0200
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:55:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016005544.GA75049@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u0swouvu.fsf@bytesex.org>

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:37:09PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:
> 
> > The problem is that this would imply that the console would only
> > work after user space is running. Even with initrd that's quite late.
> 
> klibc + initramfs + early userspace?

That's still quite late in my book (by my perspective may be skewed
a bit from low level architecture hacking) 

Ok I guess for debugging architectures it would work as long as you
have usable early console support everywhere that can be easily 
enabled when anything goes wrong.


-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2004-10-15 14:22                         ` Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Andi Kleen
2004-10-15 14:33                           ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20                             ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:39                               ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 22:27                                 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:34                                   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-16  1:07                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-21 11:59                                   ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-18 11:44                               ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 19:43                                 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 17:01                                   ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-19 17:54                                     ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 15:37                           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-16  0:55                             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-10-16 12:21                               ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-21  4:03 Yu, Luming
     [not found] <2PjiW-3hl-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-10-14 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 20:46   ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:39     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20       ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:41         ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 20:19         ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-15 22:22           ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:02             ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:09               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 15:23     ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-20 17:27       ` Kendall Bennett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-14 19:02 Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 13:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 18:36   ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:44     ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 22:12       ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-19 21:11 ` Pavel Machek

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