From: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Organization: Blackfin uClinux org
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Boot Consoles question...
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:17:26 -0400
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Quick question...

In register_console()

        if (bcon && ((newcon->flags & (CON_CONSDEV | CON_BOOT)) == 
CON_CONSDEV)) {
		[[snip]]
                newcon->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER;
        }

So - when we are switching over from a boot console to a "real" console 
- we don't back up the console, and print everything out.

This means that the boot console is on a different device than that
"real" console - you don't actually see the full boot message (from 
log_start) on the "real" console.

Is this what is intended (that the boot message gets split into 2 -
1/3 going into the bootconsole - and the remaining to to the real 
console?)

I can understand this when both (boot and real) are the same device (serial) 
or vga, but where they are not - it is a little confusing to the user - isn't 
it?

Thanks
-Robin
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