Re: [RFC] [PATCH] earlier printk output

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:12:38 -0500

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> This patch creates console devices specifically for use during early
> boot, and registers them so that printk() output may be seen prior
> to console_init().

> Included are i386 config options, early VGA text output, and early i386
> serial output.

nice. these patches work on some non-x86 platforms too...

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