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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:21:03 -0500
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Crazy idea:  Design open-source graphics chip
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
>  Of course, but DOS is not BIOS and the assumption is we want to use the
> adapter as a boot console and with Linux.  The former is handled with
> appropriate firmware and the latter with a driver.
>

Perhaps someone can tell us what the Linux kernel does before the 
console driver gets loaded.

If the console driver is a module, then all kernel init messages that 
appear before the module is loaded have nowhere to go.

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