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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@cicese.mx>
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Subject: Re: Console output for debugging
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:15:57PM -0800, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
 > Q: Is there any function in the kernel which I can call
 > safely from a module to print debug message on the console
 > screen?
 > 
 > I don't want to use printk for some reasons.

Keith Owens made a patch that allowed direct rendering of text
to console.. I just put an old copy of it at
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/documents/videochar.txt

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