From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 16 10:55:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19600 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19592 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA20315 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:54:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id TAA26938; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:41:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:41:38 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) References: <3.0.32.19970216171612.00c30100@dimaga.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970216171612.00c30100@dimaga.com>; from Eivind Eklund on Feb 16, 1997 17:16:13 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Eivind Eklund wrote: > How difficult early is it possible to switch to another vty? If this is > possible to do real early, we can have a splash screen on the second vty, > and "knowledgable people" will know they can switch back with ALT-F1. Doing something on another VTY would require a working kernel memory allocator. Switching itself would require working interrupts. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)