redirecting console output to display

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:39:02PM +0100, Ellis Andrew wrote:

The kernel shows a message "disabling irom" and then the screen is disabled.

No idea what that message is.

How can I set up my kernel so that it enables the display and outputs a
console on tty0?

The default (without any console= arguments) and with fbcon enabled is to
output to the framebuffer console.  There is no difference in this regard
between running Linux on ARM and running Linux on a PC with a framebuffer
console.