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SubjectRE: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
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It is hard to use native VGA for s3 debugging. 
I don know if serial console or net console
can help s3 debugging.

Thanks
Luming

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
>[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Machek
>Sent: 2004年10月20日 5:09
>To: Jon Smirl
>Cc: Kendall Bennett; Alan Cox; Linux Kernel Mailing List; fbdev
>Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
>
>Hi!
>
>> > What about non-x86 platforms such as PowerPC and MIPS
>embedded devices
>> > that want video (TiVo type platforms, media players etc).
>How would these
>> > fit into the picture? Would this require the boot loader
>(ie: U-Boot or
>> > whatever) to have the ability to POST the card?
>>
>> There is the assumption that whatever BIOS the device has
>can get up a
>> very early console that can output critical error messages before the
>> kernel and early user space is loaded. For example the "I can't find
>> the kernel" or "initramfs is missing" error message. This also
>> assumes that the BIOS can post whatever display it is using.
>>
>> I'm not trying to fix the problem of getting early boot messages out
>> of a Mac with an x86 card plugged into it. The card will work after
>> early user space initializes. The right way to fix that would be to
>> switch to something like LinuxBIOS and build the x86 emulator into
>> it.
>
>That still does not solve resume from suspend-to-RAM. We need to post
>VGA there. We probably could do it late in userspace... but it makes
>debugging resume pretty hard.
> Pavel
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