From: James C Georgas <jgeorgas@rogers.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vga text console
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:09:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155607768.8131.22.camel@Rainsong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155606849.3948.17.camel@daplas.org>
On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:54 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of
> > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options?
> >
>
> It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few
> incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It
> will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or
> off.
Oh. That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of
the Minimal Kernel.
I'm kind of surprised that the VGA console can't be built as a module,
like the other console drivers in the kernel can be. Is this on purpose,
or is it just that nobody has gotten around to it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 1:11 James C Georgas
2006-08-15 1:22 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-15 1:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-15 1:41 ` James C Georgas
2006-08-15 1:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-15 2:09 ` James C Georgas [this message]
2006-08-15 6:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-15 6:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
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