On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:44:22 -0800  Jonathan Stone wrote:

> The usual reason for this is that you're booting on a machine where
> the frame-buffer is not recognized as system console -- typically a
> PMAG-C,r PMAG-E, or PMAG-F.  The ioasic machines use the PROM for
> output until they find and configure the serial devices; they they
> switch from PROM console to using NetBSD drivers for console output.
> That means the console output is now going to one of teh RS-232 serial
> ports ;).

May it be better to panic if we find a non-supported frame buffer as a
console?  I would guess that most people wouldn't have a handy serial
console set up, and if the PROM variables point to a serial console, we
won't get the panic (that's the theory anyway!).

Simon.