Re: EARLY_PRINTK equivalent for framebuffers.

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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

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