Subject: Re: consinit in machdep.c?
To: Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/09/2003 15:33:28
Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net> writes:
> Could we do something like linux does wrt this? That is, store console
> messages in a buffer until the console driven is initialized, and then print
> them at once.

It would seem to me to be a bad idea. Extra complexity + you lose the
ability to see printf's immediately, which are often the only way to
debug errors early in boot.

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