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Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324



On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:38:14PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:25:22PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, if you would go out of your x86-centric world, you would know that
> > half if not more of the architectures debian support _DON'T_ have text
> > console. You mean we should provide a null modem cable and a laptop with
> > every debian CD we ship or something such ?
> 
> Who talked about modularizing all fb drivers for all architectures.  And
> btw, many architectures have text-only firmware-based consoles that
> allow early debugging (even long before any fb driver can take over
> control)

And many powerpc subarches don't have, nor does m68k or sparc.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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