Messages in this thread | | | Date | 16 Oct 2004 02:55:44 +0200 | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:55:44 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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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.
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