> That's just some of my ideas on this topic. Maybe you can give me some > hints whether it actually makes sense ;) For a lot of hardware it may not matter. If it goes bang you boot with a debugging kernel (one containing a vt driver) If your user space goes castors up early then you are going to need input facilities anyway (consider the fedora rescue mode in dracut for example) As far as compatibility goes we have the ttyprintk driver which just provides a fake tty which types nothing and whose output goes to the console. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html