Re: Advice saught on math functions

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 11:31:37 EST


> > messages after PCI is initialised, until then they are queued away or
> > only on serial console.
>
> Even though, pci gets initialized pretty early in the boot sequence
> doesn't it? Considerably before init?

Yes. But quite a few crashes could occur before that (and have) - eg
running a K6 kernel on a 486
 
> accessibility yet. I know for serial synths we can turn serial on in
> lilo and at least hear what is going on. Without modifying lilo for
> each synth other than serial we have no way of knowing whether we have
> the full lilo prompt or what.

Serial is going away if the vendors get their way, maybe within 12 months
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