On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:08:41 +0000
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> > However, the only thing running before main() is init386 itself, which
> > only calls printf in certain debugging modes.
> 
> Where do the first of these messages come from - they appear on the
> console in green, but are missing from dmesg (which starts with the
> kernel id).  Would they still appear if it were removed?

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.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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