> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

