As far as I know any framebuffers that NetBSD/sparc supports are
	also supported via the PROM for basic I/O, and the console driver
	will fall back to using that if no framebuffer driver attaches.
	The only reasons I could see to keeping the drivers in the install
	kernel would be to speed up output (for which we would need to
	burn more space for RASTERCONSOLE, and is still not going to be
	a speed demon), and to avoid a 'non configured' line in the
	dmesg which scrolls by when the kernel boots...

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Gerald Richter wrote:

> Probably not. :o) What all frame buffers are supported and are they
> commented as to why?
>
> -Gerald
>
> David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > 	INSTALL has various framebuffer devices enabled. Given the kernel
> > 	will fall back to using the PROM device for console access, are
> > 	these really needed for installation kernels?
> >
> >
>
>
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