Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:18:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > This is bullshit. I don't think it is a great idea to modularize the
> > kernel, and thus lose all the early debugging. We are going to hurt us if
> > we go that way, especially as the boot process is now more fragile as it
> > used to be, thanks to the initrd thingy,
>
> The workaround for this problem is to modularize everything that could
> possibly break or hang the kernel. Load it after vesafb-or-whatever.
> Problem solved.
He, easy to do. Still, it is good to have as early a console feedback as
possible, see for example all the hoops the x86 kernel goes in to ensure
that not a single line of debugging is lost, even when using an fbdev
device.
<skipped rest of stuff not really related to modular fbdevs>
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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