Hi Jon, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:19 PM, jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html