Early raster console support

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Hey folks --

I'm looking for two solutions that are somewhat related here:

  1. I need rasops-like functionality in a bootloader. prep has a
     similar issue where there is no firmware method to output text to a
     raster console, right? How is this handled?
  2. Is there any facility to do an early cnattach of genfb so it can be
     used with userconf?

Cheers,
Jared