Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] dummy console

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, James Simmons wrote:
>    The solution I thought of to deal with this we not have dummy_con at
> the very beginning. Instead have fbcon spawn its own VTs instead of
> calling take_over_console. What we if don't have vgacon or mdacon at the
> beginning. I thought about not have the console enabled (CON_ENABLE) so
> nothing is printed yet by printk. If we do have mdacon and vgacon
> then we can enable the console. People could argue that data will be

Note that fbcon can work as some kind of dummycon as well, if you supply a
dummy display_switch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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