Hi Jon,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:19 PM, jonsmirl@gmail.com [off-list ref] wrote:
Is there some existing way to do early printk type output to a
framebuffer that has been set up by the bootloader? early printk is
before any device drivers are loaded.
arch/m68k/kernel/head.S does this on Mac.
ISTR offb also used to do that on PPC, or perhaps it was the
old PowerMac console driver we had before that.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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