On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:05:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > If you have a framebuffer driver for the video card you shouldn't need
> > to even touch the video bios. Worst case is that you need to tweak it
> > to actually initialize the video card from the completely unitialized
> > state.
>
> Doesn't that mean that you don't get any video until after linuxbios+linux
> has booted? Wouldn't most people like to see progress messages during the
> kernel boot?
yes, this is a limitation ... I'd like to have linuxbios messages end up
in log_buf in kernel.
If you've seen the linux pda's boot you'll see the same thing. No log
messages until fbdev is initialized.
ron
