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Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
To: kirk@braille.uwo.ca (Kirk Reiser)
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> > messages after PCI is initialised, until then they are queued away or
> > only on serial console.
> 
> Even though, pci gets initialized pretty early in the boot sequence
> doesn't it?  Considerably before init?

Yes. But quite a few crashes could occur before that (and have) - eg
running a K6 kernel on a 486
 
> accessibility yet.  I know for serial synths we can turn serial on in
> lilo and at least hear what is going on.  Without modifying lilo for
> each synth other than serial we have no way of knowing whether we have
> the full lilo prompt or what.

Serial is going away if the vendors get their way, maybe within 12 months
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