Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 21:56:48 Paul Mundt wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:37:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Rob Landley wrote: >>>>> Actually, lots have frame buffers these days. >>>> Cell phones, for instance. >>> Sure, but do you want to use them as consoles? >> Unless your name is Pavel, no one actually wants a console on their >> phone. So no, just framebuffers, as is to be expected :-) > > Actually if you ever need to diagnose early boot stuff on _any_ platform, you > do need a console. But it can be serial or netconsole, as long as that > works... ... who says I _always_ want it to look and feel like a "cell phone"? Some days, I'd prefer that my cell phone look like something else. Anything else. Especially something that will actually work _for_ me instead of the other way around. But barring that, something throw-able. Like a chair. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
