Re: Console output for debugging

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 18:31:03 EST

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:15:57PM -0800, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> Q: Is there any function in the kernel which I can call
> safely from a module to print debug message on the console
> screen?
>
> I don't want to use printk for some reasons.

Keith Owens made a patch that allowed direct rendering of text
to console.. I just put an old copy of it at
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/documents/videochar.txt

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