Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:44:43 +0200 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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hi :)
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:20:58AM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > It doesn't imply this at all. You set an initial mode with the BIOS > > during boot up. When your initrd runs you gain the ability to flip mode > > and do cool stuff - arguably it doesn't even need to be in initrd. > > That works great on x86, but this solution was developed for PowerPC and > MIPS embedded systems development not x86 desktop systems. For those > platforms you either need a boot loader that can bring up the system into > graphics mode
not neccessarily.
If anything goes wrong before console is initialized, then that could be displayed by the firmware. Is there any arch which doesn't have some basic text-output functunality in its firmware?
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