Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:29:04 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: Boot Consoles question... |
* Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> wrote:
> Quick question... > > In register_console() > > if (bcon && ((newcon->flags & (CON_CONSDEV | CON_BOOT)) == > CON_CONSDEV)) { > [[snip]] > newcon->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER; > } > > So - when we are switching over from a boot console to a "real" > console - we don't back up the console, and print everything out. > > This means that the boot console is on a different device than > that "real" console - you don't actually see the full boot message > (from log_start) on the "real" console. > > Is this what is intended (that the boot message gets split into 2 > - 1/3 going into the bootconsole - and the remaining to to the > real console?) > > I can understand this when both (boot and real) are the same > device (serial) or vga, but where they are not - it is a little > confusing to the user - isn't it?
Could be changed i guess ... but is it really an issue? All messages should be in the syslog buffer (if it's large enough). One artifact could be manual scroll-back - it would perhaps be nice indeed to allow the scrollback to the top of the bootlog.
Ingo
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