> You're spot on, we get no info.  That's why there's a bunch of kludges
> around, mostly called early_printk.  But most people use x86 and they
> get console output sufficiently early anyway because they know their
> serial port is at 0x3f8 ...
> 
> I just realised that with CON_BOOT, we could actually get rid of the
> __con_initcall loop in tty_io.c and let all the horrible early serial
> console stuff disappear.
> 
> This console stuff really needs a dedicated maintainer ... wonder if
> we can find a sucker ...

I like ot tackle those problems. The only thing is I'm busy handling the 
fbdev fixes.

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