Re: [RFC] [PATCH] earlier printk output

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:00:12 -0800


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:45:35AM -0800, James Simmons 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...
>
> Where is this patch? Sine I have rewritten the console/tty layer I'm quite
> interested in this.
The patch is available from:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/early_printk/

As mentioned by the origional message...
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