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I would assume however a serial port console would be fine for embedded
machines until the framebuffer driver could come up anyway.

This would be an incorrect assumption.  Speaking as a developer of one
said embedded system I must have video at boot and be able to dump
critical kernel messages to the screen.

I don't see it as the kernel's responsibility to compensate for lack
of something in an embedded system's BIOS. Embedded programmers are
free to go in and add basic display code to their arch specific
directories for printing out this class of messages. Better yet would
be to fix the embedded ROM to support basic display.

Unfortunately, this is not only problem of embedded bootup but also of
resume (from suspend-to-RAM) on plain i386 notebook near you...

								Pavel
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