Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269862AbUJSRKr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:10:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269874AbUJSRGY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:06:24 -0400 Received: from faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.33.16]:43446 "EHLO faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269857AbUJSRBV (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:01:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:01:11 +0200 From: Martin Waitz To: Kendall Bennett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Message-ID: <20041019170111.GG3618@admingilde.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kendall Bennett , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <416FB29A.11731.1C46848@localhost> <4173BA7D.32320.11833A1D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Fnm8lRGFTVS/3GuM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4173BA7D.32320.11833A1D@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1411 Lines: 46 --Fnm8lRGFTVS/3GuM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hoi :) On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:43:41PM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by basic text output? If you mean to a=20 > display, then yes, embedded boxes using U-Boot and OpenBIOS usually do=20 > not have any text output. But if you mean serial output that is usually= =20 > the method of choice for the embedded machines that don't have support=20 > for a physical display in the firmware. I mean: text output on the preferred console. Embedded devices have a serial console anyway and all other machines have firmware support for drawing text. That is: switching into graphics mode can be done by the firmware, bootload= er, or by userspace and doesn't have to be in the kernel. --=20 Martin Waitz --Fnm8lRGFTVS/3GuM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBdUhWj/Eaxd/oD7IRAkOeAJ98hh+cbbgohdQxYa6Gts/IxqwU0gCeKyNq RnrxQCnBjqGjXt1Q58A8Ess= =1+PR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Fnm8lRGFTVS/3GuM-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/