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?
ever use a fb console? you can see the *kernel* progress messages just
fine...
it buffers the first few msg until console init is done. In fact, the
regular
vga text console does exactly the same...
so really there would be no difference with kernel messages. there just
won't be any bios screen... "AMI BIOS 4.51...." or ramtest on vga,
that's what the serial port is for.
