Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270531AbUJTUYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270558AbUJTUUz (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:20:55 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:48805 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270525AbUJTUQH (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:16:07 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Tomas Carnecky Subject: Re: my opinion about VGA devices Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:16:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <417590F3.1070807@dbservice.com> <200410201318.26430.oliver@neukum.org> <41765A8C.2020309@dbservice.com> In-Reply-To: <41765A8C.2020309@dbservice.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410202216.35464.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 22 > I guess that you are talking about the fact that displaying text > messages would be possible only after the first device driver has > initialized and registered with the kernel. No, the kernel cannot print at all. > You could do the printing in two stages: at the begining the same way as > in the current kernel, but as soon as the first driver is registered, > the kernel switches to the function provided by the driver. The current kernel can print only if the video chipset is initialised to a certain degree, which usually the firmware or the boot loader provide for. Regards Oliver - 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/