Why require CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT for so much of offb?

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:09AM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> : BOOTX_TEXT != BootX now tho.  It's for writing on the screen early on.
> : Perhaps some name changing, define moving and a new header for ppc64?
>
> That doesn't seem to be used for prom_prints(), so what early screen
> prints would these be?

Well, take a look at arch/ppc/kernel/btext.c.  I _think_ one of the
things this lets you do is if you drop into xmon you can still use the
screen.

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