Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:01:11 +0200 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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hoi :)
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:43:41PM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by basic text output? If you mean to a > display, then yes, embedded boxes using U-Boot and OpenBIOS usually do > not have any text output. But if you mean serial output that is usually > the method of choice for the embedded machines that don't have support > for a physical display in the firmware.
I mean: text output on the preferred console.
Embedded devices have a serial console anyway and all other machines have firmware support for drawing text.
That is: switching into graphics mode can be done by the firmware, bootloader, or by userspace and doesn't have to be in the kernel.
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