Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:52:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CON_BOOT |
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> You're spot on, we get no info. That's why there's a bunch of kludges > around, mostly called early_printk. But most people use x86 and they > get console output sufficiently early anyway because they know their > serial port is at 0x3f8 ... > > I just realised that with CON_BOOT, we could actually get rid of the > __con_initcall loop in tty_io.c and let all the horrible early serial > console stuff disappear. > > This console stuff really needs a dedicated maintainer ... wonder if > we can find a sucker ...
I like ot tackle those problems. The only thing is I'm busy handling the fbdev fixes.
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